• highduc@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    I wonder if they couldn’t focus on other domestic industries instead? More lucrative ones. DW say 59,000 tons of clothes end up being thrown in the desert so it doesn’t seem like there’s a need to create even more clothes.

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      1 year ago

      As much as I hate corporate subsidies, I think what would be better is letting the people making clothes, sell the donations rather than just the current resellers who aren’t contributing anything meanful.

      They can use the profits to reinvest into making their own. Eventually they’d be able to match the quality of used clothes, which would create meaningful job growth instead of a few clerks working at resale shops while the owners make huge profits.

      Like I said, it’s complicated

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      1 year ago

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