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People buy what's cheapest. Some because they want, a lot because they have to. Unless you ban plastic clothes or add extra taxes on plastic and therefore provide a cheaper alternative, nothing is going to happen.
Ahh yes they need 30 plastic garments per year...
No way around that haha
There is second hand too... God forbid these "elites" have to suffer such indiginity when they can just order some Zara or shein
It's a policy problem. Personal choices matter, but no amount of blaming poor people will fix it
Mendable and long lasting clothing needs a firm hand from policy, which can be a nettlesome issue because the concept of "fast fashion" is at the heart of the issue. Textiles produced per capita have skyrocketed, and synthetic clothes fall apart sooner and many can't be mended as easily as traditional textiles, which leads to overconsumption and waste (i.e. "profit"). The synthetic clothes can't be fixed and break down fast. Even nicer clothes break down faster than they should these days. Any legislative agenda to amend it would need to address repairability and durability and have serious teeth - but more to the point, it's an aspect of capitalism that has lacked rails for so long that saying it's gone off the rails barely makes sense.
None of this comment is stopping people from changing their consumption habits today though
These are not mutually exclusive but one of them can change something today, the other one requires state to pass pro consumer laws which is impossible under the current regime.
So you are essentially advocating people do nothing instead of you know, fix their own shiti consumption habits.
You don't need 30 garmets per person per year... no matter how shiti the clothes are.
I said this two comments up the chain. I was never absolving anyone of their bad consumption choices, and it's not very fun to be spoken to as if I was.