Wait till they hear about chocolate

They probably come from the same factory even, just having a popular brand means more profit margins/middlemen

No, because the alternative would have been for those clothes to be thrown away. And we still need clothes

And either way, at that point it isn't your fault. Someone else made the unethical decision

There's a Goodwill in my area where my wife regularly finds lululemon and patagonia stuff for cheap that looks like it was barely used if at all. Also cashmere sweaters, real fur coats and merino stuff for really cheap.

There's a salvation army a couple of miles from there that has severely used clothes a lot more expensive (and also salvation army 🤮)

There's also a "vintage" store that is super expensive and another that it's more like an exchange so clothes are good but expensive but you can also sell your clothes for credit

Yeah, go for charity shops (except for Salvation Army, I've heard they are awful - not sure why, though ...)

Aye… On ali I can get a cheap cable for like a dollar, not to mention how easy it is to get free shipping there. Meanwhile at my local electronics shop, I’m looking at 6+. Like it’s ridiculous. I can have something flown to me from China for almost an order of magnitude cheaper??? Our economy is very silly.

Yeah, hearing stats about the average amount of times an article of clothing is worn in the west (which is somewhere between 7 and 10 times) is insane to me. I usually wear things until the fabric is too tired and fragile to be patched up, which is typically hundreds of times and many dozens of washes. My favorite pair of trousers has been going strong for definitely more than a thousand days of intense use, including hiking and other sports; they are close to giving up but still not quite there yet.

The mindset of buying clothes (or boots) to wear them less than a hundred times before discarding is just beyond me, and I'm way above the poverty line. From what I hear there are people who never wash some of their clothing categories (e.g. underwear), just throwing them out when they get dirty, and it drives me mad.

Like, some poor person was paid $2 per day or so to saw this in the heat of SE Asian summer, then it was shipped half way across the planet to you, and you throw all this effort away because "it's out of fashion" or "it has a small hole in it"? Really?

Most cheap clothing is fragile and unethically made. Even more expensive stuff is a risk, but nothing good comes from rock bottom prices

She's not implying anyone else isn't using child labor, at all. She's implying Temu nearly exclusively uses it and supercharges the scale and impact of the problem.