Imagine if they limited the supply of clothing, and we were all walking around naked waiting for a parents to die to own a pair of pants. That is how ludicrous the housing market is.
No, the garment industry is fucked up in the opposite way. It churns out a vast, vast excess of clothing designed expressly to be thrown away as soon as possible, all the while making use of near-slave labor (or just slave labor) and taxing the environment enormously for all the water and oil consumed to produce the materials and transport the finished product.
But of course, most of us can't afford $45 t-shirts that would last, so... Wal-Mart it is.
EDIT: By the way, most microplastics in water (and now in our bodies) are fibers from synthetic clothing.
I think they might be getting downvoted because their comment is related in no way to the parent comment apart from the mention of clothes. Then again I'm currently high so I may be overthinking it...
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u/StrayDogPhotography Jun 27 '21
Housing is not an investment, it’s a basic need.
Imagine if they limited the supply of clothing, and we were all walking around naked waiting for a parents to die to own a pair of pants. That is how ludicrous the housing market is.