I care about my health and sustainability. General advice is to check clothing labels, and I won’t buy underwear or whatever that has a large percentage of polyester. But they can just make it up and there isn’t recourse. Can’t sue em and I don’t have access to a lab that can analyze the composition. So how would one know?

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    Port que no los dos?

    We should reward companies striving to be ethical instead of contributing to shareholders of unethical companies.

    Shein only exists because people keep giving them money. There is great power in where we choose to spend our money.

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      Also I’d like to add that the whole billionaires do it so I don’t care anymore is a shitty argument. I care because I care, not because of someone else’s actions, and I can’t turn off the part of my heart that cares because someone else did it. I just want to know who to believe because I need to be clothed in public and I’d like to enrich the least bad guy. Fully aware that the men who move only in dimly lit halls determine my future for me

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        You ate good people!!

        I’ve been feeling down lately because people around me don’t seem to care. Seeing you passion made my day better!!

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        Just top clarify, I didn’t say not to care. I think that there are certain things we can and should do, but it’s more important to build a powerful movement than to focus on individual effort.

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          Yeah it’s not gonna do anything if you pressure individuals to make difficult choices and spent a lot of time shopping and we shouldn’t expect a poor working mother to buy from ethical companies, excuse the oxymoron, but I do have time and a tiny bit of money and I just want to know where to focus my efforts. If you want to build a powerful movement I’m all ears, but if you’re just saying that like a catchphrase that’s just noise

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      PREACH! Forreal I will never dream of buying Shein or the like and encourage everyone to vote with their money. I just want some decent clothes where I can actually trust the label.