the rabbit hole goes even further. Most of the crap clothing doesn't even hang around in America to "help the less fortunate" or whatever. Goodwill exports it to countries in East Africa, where tons of used clothes are basically just
thrown on the docks and sold to resellers by the pound.
While some of these resellers and Goodwill make plenty of money and East Africans occasionally get to wear some fancy western brand on the cheap, this practice has also destroyed the local textile industry so extensively that some governments (Uganda and Rwanda) in the region have outright banned the import of used clothing. Oh yeah, and when those countries banned the practice, the US government punished them by expelling them from the African Growth and Opportunity Act and cancelling other trade preferences.
In short: Fuck Goodwill, they're an instrument of American imperialism
I forgot to mention I worked in a building that shared a warehouse with Goodwill and you're right. Anything that doesn't sell they just compressed into these giant cubes so they can put on shipping containers and make more money.
the rabbit hole goes even further. Most of the crap clothing doesn't even hang around in America to "help the less fortunate" or whatever. Goodwill exports it to countries in East Africa, where tons of used clothes are basically just thrown on the docks and sold to resellers by the pound.
While some of these resellers and Goodwill make plenty of money and East Africans occasionally get to wear some fancy western brand on the cheap, this practice has also destroyed the local textile industry so extensively that some governments (Uganda and Rwanda) in the region have outright banned the import of used clothing. Oh yeah, and when those countries banned the practice, the US government punished them by expelling them from the African Growth and Opportunity Act and cancelling other trade preferences.
In short: Fuck Goodwill, they're an instrument of American imperialism
I forgot to mention I worked in a building that shared a warehouse with Goodwill and you're right. Anything that doesn't sell they just compressed into these giant cubes so they can put on shipping containers and make more money.
It’s dystopian knowing that some goodwill executive probably discussed a plan with a CIA ghoul not unlike the other American businesses