• FarFarAway@startrek.website
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    16 hours ago

    Supposedly, met the son of a higher up in Armani, in college. He told us about how their jeans cost something like $2.50 (in the early 2000s) to make in an exploited factory in Bangladesh, and how everyone who would buy their jeans for $100 (or more) a pop was an idiot. They were making out like bandits and paying their workers next to nothing.

  • mlg@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    More surprised it was exploited workers in Italy and not some outsourced labor in another country like India or China

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    3 days ago

    Wow I’m so surprised. I thought for sure such expensive luxury items would be made by craftsman. To think, all that profit going directly to the company and not the workers… Just shocking.

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    3 days ago

    This is being known for a long long time (think 90s and before).

    Roberto Saviano’s Gomorrah is a great book where this is also explained, if anyone’s interested.

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    3 days ago

    And fuckall will be done about it because braindead crusters are genetically predisposed to being braindead