Re:Stuff Is Worse Now
by lo_zamoyski on Monday January 09, 2023 @11:23AM
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This isn't a realistic option in general and wouldn't impact the market enough to shift company behavior.
Instead, just like marketing was used to manipulate the public into bad buying habits, perhaps it may be possible to make fast fashion seem cheap and mass produced (which it is) and therefore undesirable. I.e., if you buy fast fashion, you're buying garbage and therefore dressing yourself in garbage (both true). You're also polluting the environment (true) which means climate change cache can be used profitably. Fast fashion must be seen as a kind of scam.
Instead, just like marketing was used to manipulate the public into bad buying habits, perhaps it may be possible to make fast fashion seem cheap and mass produced (which it is) and therefore undesirable. I.e., if you buy fast fashion, you're buying garbage and therefore dressing yourself in garbage (both true). You're also polluting the environment (true) which means climate change cache can be used profitably. Fast fashion must be seen as a kind of scam.