With our second piece, we build on a well-documented issue, giving us solid data to work with. Cheap clothes expose the deeper fault line in modern society: capitalism itself. It’s a complex, nuanced subject, and if we handle it carelessly we risk easy misreadings. With every essay on global wealth inequality, our aim is to tease out a few more threads so we can all see the world—and its truths—a little more clearly.
“ Prevailing practice is precisely the problem.” - yes and also they could be more specific about what is meant by “living wage” and “discretionary income”.
With our second piece, we build on a well-documented issue, giving us solid data to work with. Cheap clothes expose the deeper fault line in modern society: capitalism itself. It’s a complex, nuanced subject, and if we handle it carelessly we risk easy misreadings. With every essay on global wealth inequality, our aim is to tease out a few more threads so we can all see the world—and its truths—a little more clearly.
“ Prevailing practice is precisely the problem.” - yes and also they could be more specific about what is meant by “living wage” and “discretionary income”.