Consumer Choices, Dirty Streets, and Televised Garbage Fires
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Poppets, I hope you’re well, and I hope that you’re taking care of each other. To the internet! If you read one thing today, read this long read, by our friend Meredith Haggerty: American Manufacturing Doesn’t Have to Die, looking at how we can speak platitudes to the moon about creating domestic jobs, or preventing human rights abuses in the clothing supply chain, but that none of it means anything until we’re willing to pay for it in the clothes that we purchase. Her portraits of American Giant’s factories, training, and employee incentive systems show a “supply chain [that] isn’t unimaginably bleak or impossible to know.” My American Giant hoodie is one of the best pieces of clothing I’ve ever owned -
Consumer Choices, Dirty Streets, and Televised Garbage Fires
Consumer Choices, Dirty Streets, and…
Consumer Choices, Dirty Streets, and Televised Garbage Fires
Poppets, I hope you’re well, and I hope that you’re taking care of each other. To the internet! If you read one thing today, read this long read, by our friend Meredith Haggerty: American Manufacturing Doesn’t Have to Die, looking at how we can speak platitudes to the moon about creating domestic jobs, or preventing human rights abuses in the clothing supply chain, but that none of it means anything until we’re willing to pay for it in the clothes that we purchase. Her portraits of American Giant’s factories, training, and employee incentive systems show a “supply chain [that] isn’t unimaginably bleak or impossible to know.” My American Giant hoodie is one of the best pieces of clothing I’ve ever owned -