| ▲ | Sol- 4 hours ago | |||||||||||||
Cheap clothing is a civilizational achievement and good for human welfare. So carbon emissions are bad, but then we should price carbon and not micromanage clothing inventory. | ||||||||||||||
| ▲ | nicbou 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] | |||||||||||||
Clothing everyone is an achievement, but fast fashion is overshooting that target. A bit like feeding everyone vs. having an obesity crisis. | ||||||||||||||
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| ▲ | 1718627440 an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | |||||||||||||
Getting common goods less expensive is good, making them too cheap is not. Imagine you are optimizing a math model, but nothing actually has prices. You just get a garbage point as optimum. You need to have scarcity, so that a system that optimizes the allocation of scarce goods actually works. | ||||||||||||||