'The True Cost' - Official Trailer

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Strong rec spodek · 2018-03 · on “The dirty industry of fast fashion is causing an environmental “emergency””

The documentary The True Cost [this video] covers many of the problems with fast fashion -- the pollution, exploitation, and more, but especially the pollution. I stopped shopping those stores since watching it. I recommend it.

Cites thulecitizen · 2020-01 · on “State of Independent SaaS [pdf]”

> Must there always be an issue when the data doesn't suit a worldview? Why compromise a survey 's integrity with your own bias? Hello. Might I remind you of the Global North's historic and continued plundering of the Global South (developing countries)? Or should we forget about all of that? > It costs virtually $0 these days to start a SaaS company Yes, if you have a big cultural inheritance (which was itself plundered and stolen and appropriated from other countries). Oh yes, and you need a big trust fund and upper class parents, or at the least a pedagogical mentor who stimulates you, nourishes your curiosity. By saying this you are showing me the holy ground you are standing on. There a

Cites thulecitizen · 2020-04 · on “Zoom rolled their own encryption scheme, transmit keys through servers in China”

> You could even argue that being "apolitical" actually means that your political opinion is that the status quo is acceptable I agree with this. I see Cultural Hegemony (domination-justification stories) being very strong in unexpected places. Family members or close friends who indirectly benefit from the artificial scarcity mechanisms (in SV especially Intellectual Property) that make up the various social class realities of rentier capitalism [1]. What seperates me and a mother of three in Bangladesh, who is getting paid starvation wages making the designer clothes I wear [2], is that I was lucky enough to have been born in the global North, in an upper-middle class family. I was able to

Cites bergstromm466 · 2020-07 · on “Apple for the first time makes a top-of-the-line iPhone model in India”

> pretend the positives don't exist Critiquing something is not denying positives. Please point out where I said that? That is not my intention. I would say that critiquing without providing an alternative is about sharing grief [1], than it is about discussing, planning and creating alternatives. I think you've given me the opportunity to reflect on my approach and message. I am for systemic evolution and integration: technology shapes us, and we shape technology, it's a spiral. Promoting intellectual property rights while at the same time talking about 'free markets' is one of the most harmful and backward Doublespeak going on in today's system I think. The systemic components and dynamics

Cites bergstromm466 · 2020-12 · on “No One Wants Used Clothes Anymore (2018)”

Noone in the elite wants to examine the exploitative capitalist relationships that support fast fashion The True Cost (2015) documentary trailer: [this video]

Cites bergstromm466 · 2021-01 · on “How hard should I push myself?”

> Of course in the modern world, calories are too cheap to meter. Our instincts no longer make sense. Maybe for intellectual laborers in the global north. Not for the starving billion who are barely surviving, yet are also producing all the commodities global north capitalists force them to make: often after having been forcefully bribed/expelled from their land, mostly by ruthless global north firms together with corrupt governments. [1] [LINK] [LINK] [this video] [LINK] [1] [LINK]

Cites beckman466 · 2021-03 · on “US Is One Step Closer to Having Program to Study Blocking Sun”

> moving forward with a plan to block incoming sunlight could alter rainfall patterns and cause monsoon rains that millions of farmers in India rely on to dry up First, global north capitalist governments and firms force India (and other global south countries) to make their clothes, [1] their iPhones, [2] and more [3], for peanuts. Then they go and fuck up their food security. What a marvellous system. [1] [this video] [2] [LINK] [3] [LINK] , [LINK]

Cites beckman466 · 2021-08 · on “Adidas ends Reebok era with $2.5B sale to Authentic Brands”

> What did Nike do right? Luck and paying the right celebrities for endorsements? Also using sweatshops in the global south to extract superprofits [1]? More and more I'm starting see branding as a way for big companies to slowly condition people to relate emotionally to some spectacle [2] (e.g. an exciting celebrity spokesperson in an advert), distracting them from an often exploitative and unsustainable production process. How many people know about Rana Plaza? [3] It's exciting to see new initiatives like 'Fixing Fashion' though (Alicia Minnaard and Dave Hakkens)[4]. [1] [LINK] [2] [LINK] [3] [this video] [4] [LINK] - short intro: [LINK]