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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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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".