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- cerement ( @cerement@slrpnk.net ) 37•5 months ago
we’re right back to the Vimes’ boots theory – it’s not that shoppers don’t care about the destruction of the planet, it’s that they have no other option – when your choice is shopping at Walmart or freezing your ass off, telling them to just buy less ain’t gonna cut it
- LoamImprovement ( @LoamImprovement@beehaw.org ) 9•5 months ago
It’s funny, boots theory has been largely retired since the rich can no longer get the kind of quality that lasts decades. They could certainly afford it, it’s just not available for purchase - capitalism killed it off.
- belated_frog_pants ( @belated_frog_pants@beehaw.org ) 32•5 months ago
Omg regulate the fucking companies! Appealing to shoppers senses will do nothing when supply and demand have been completely divorced and the product is made before the sales are even there
- MercurySunrise ( @MercurySunrise@slrpnk.net ) English9•5 months ago
Ikr, why is it so much to ask? People are still buying shitty products because they feel they need them for quality of life? Make the products and their producers not shitty. It’s a simple solution and, in comparison to blaming the consumer, an effective one too.
- ex_06 ( @ex_06@slrpnk.net ) English9•5 months ago
It’s sad that most people are commenting without even reading the article nor watching the mockumentary. We can be better than this :)
I watched it and it has some nice jokes and sketches in it. There is no blame, just plain explaining some psychological mechanism and also even mocking the corporate greenwashing.
It does not address capitalism, yes. It pushes Patagonia, yes. Still, it’s a good little video, I would send it to people around me if it was in my language.
- cerement ( @cerement@slrpnk.net ) 6•5 months ago
(also hard not to see this as yet another Patagonia publicity stunt)
- ex_06 ( @ex_06@slrpnk.net ) English3•5 months ago
Yep, this move was sad.
Like when Birkenstock, notoriously worn by communists here in Europe, decided to go public lol
- baseless_discourse ( @baseless_discourse@mander.xyz ) 1•5 months ago
I am sure they are not guilty of some shady deeds.
But I would much prefer billionaire to build documentary convincing people to consume less; than pretending to care about the environment, while designing their product to be dysfunctional after couple years (apple); or force woman to give birth to rapists’s children ( https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-cola-walmart-donate-anti-abortion-political-committee-roe-wade-2022-5 ).