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Re:No One Wants Used Clothes Anymore (2018) by asdff on Friday December 04, 2020 @05:03PM (#25308778)
What's more environmentally friendly: clear cutting land and irrigating it to growing cotton, spooling it and making it into textile, dying it, screen printing it cheaply with underpaid labor, and shipping it across the ocean, or buying that $5 shirt in your size that already exists in that goodwill in your neighborhood?
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Re:No One Wants Used Clothes Anymore (2018) by ummonk on Friday December 04, 2020 @06:44PM (#25309843)
Well, the former lets someone have a job, however underpaid.
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Re:No One Wants Used Clothes Anymore (2018) by albatruss on Friday December 04, 2020 @07:21PM (#25310218)
This is a reason to challenge the value of jobs, not a reason to materially damage our irreplaceable environment. Social constructions must yield to material reality.
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Re:No One Wants Used Clothes Anymore (2018) by ClumsyPilot on Friday December 04, 2020 @09:42PM (#25311185)
If you ate gonna waste money to create jobs you could habe a public works programm for planting trees, or have mandatory conscription and bigger military, or have government paid for education, or infrastructure, or any number of other things
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Re:No One Wants Used Clothes Anymore (2018) by ummonk on Saturday December 05, 2020 @03:36AM (#25312873)
None of that transfers money from rich countries to poor countries.
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Re:No One Wants Used Clothes Anymore (2018) by abraae on Saturday December 05, 2020 @04:15AM (#25313020)
Planting trees does. Indirectly by combatting climate change, which has proportionally negative impacts on poorer countries.
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Re:No One Wants Used Clothes Anymore (2018) by triceratops on Saturday December 05, 2020 @02:35AM (#25312635)
What's so great about a shitty job that destroys the world?
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Re:No One Wants Used Clothes Anymore (2018) by ummonk on Sunday December 06, 2020 @07:39PM (#25328136)
It puts food in your belly and lets you buy medicine.
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Re:No One Wants Used Clothes Anymore (2018) by CameronNemo on Saturday December 05, 2020 @02:43AM (#25312673)
Reminds of brave new world. The world government has to encourage consumption so that everyone has a job. People without jobs get restless, even if their needs are met.
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Re:No One Wants Used Clothes Anymore (2018) by LockAndLol on Saturday December 05, 2020 @02:57AM (#25312729)
Are you really thinking this through? You are justifying child and slave labor and exploiting other countries right now because of "Arbeit macht frei".
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