• modsarefascist [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Sry late reply but it's a pretty huge industry. Like the entire northwest of the state of Georgia is dedicated to entirely carpet production. It's literally where much of the carpet worldwide comes from. It's a big business and I'd bet you'd find a lot of America has similar things. Like the auto industry that used to exist in the Midwest. They only reason the carpet industry hasn't entirely moved overseas is because they can get away with paying unbelievably low wages here for a very complex job, hell they used to bus in Mexican and Guatemalan immigrants just so they could pay them less than minimum wage.

    • CTHlurker [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Your reply made me do a bit of googling, and it led me to this absolutely wonderful publication / website. Apparently there is a floor-covering weekly magazine :che-smile: https://www.floorcoveringweekly.com/main/features/why-northwest-georgia-27768

      • modsarefascist [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        Lol there's way more than that. I remember when I was 19 I got one of my designs on the front page biggest industry mag (textile world iirc).

        You'd think that would be an easy win with a portfolio but nope. The biggest requirement to survive here seems to be if you're a right wing nutcase, which I am not. Sry just pissed about that and a few other things

        • CTHlurker [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          It honestly brought me back to the earlier days of the internet, when it wasn't just 4 big content-aggregators.