"the algo menswear nerd is fascist" weird sentence
once again, if you think you can buy a $5 cut-and-sew shirt without some exploitation along the way, you might have polyester fibers stuck somewhere in your brain
(Arrested Development) how much does it cost to make a shirt without exploitation, $14?
I've written about labor abuses in LA's garment district. unlike many ppl who defended Shein today, my view of garment worker rights doesn't change based on country
anti-imperialism is about critiquing your own country most of all, one article is nice but let's see some numbers about how often he condemns finance imperialists with actual historical materialism.
also these tweets:
Do you know American importers were paying USD2/pc of T-shirt fm Chinese manufactures & sell for USD30, but keep complaining Chinese are too expensive then switched most of the production to India & Bangladesh at the price abt USD1.5/PC only?
Shein is helping Chinese manufactures selling a T-shirt cost USD2/pc directly to consumers at USD5/pc, including all the sales & marketing cost, & you prefer to pay USD30 for a same T-shirt?
That's totally understandable when a richman could never understand the life of ordinary.
"sorry international workers, but $5 shirts are bad for the environment" bruh this guy is literally the neoliberal austerity western wokescold meme about poor people not deserving an affordable t-shirt lol
"the algo menswear nerd is fascist" weird sentence
... Oh god, I think... I think BMF is becoming self aware!
Xiajiang makes a lot of textiles but this guy is generally on the "buy a handful of more expensive things instead of a ton of cheap things" line of thinking, but also constantly reminds the reader he's not telling anyone what to do.
Yeah, I was just confused cause his Shein thing was just regular ol "manufacturing in China = sweatshop" rhetoric, didn't see him bring up anything beyond that.
The textile industry has been fucked for... centuries? And Americans are notorious for overconsumption, to the point that even charitable organizations don't know what to do with the volume of excess apparel.
I'm not sure how anything in this article really addresses that.