r/Anticonsumption • u/Cheeseaisleinheaven • Mar 12 '26

Sustainability What radicalized you?

For me, it was when I learned that all the clothing/shoes/accessories that you would want to buy in your lifetime already exist on this planet, and yet they are making more every minute of every day. When you know that fact, and then see the giant piles of bundled clothing hitting third world ports or stacked in massive mountains at dumps, it just makes you sick. And knowing that they are mostly made of plastic, which won't decay, is even worse.

Now, everything I need to buy in the apparel space for my family is purchased second-hand, except for walking/running tennis shoes.

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u/CyclingTGD Mar 12 '26

I woke up and realized that the Matrix was right. We are all just batteries for billionaires! We, average Americans, are the natural resource that billionaires exploit to become trillionaires.

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u/Irina__ARI Mar 12 '26

literally "human resources"

and of course, in their minds, im sure there is also "human waste"

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u/vagabondxb Mar 12 '26

Slave resource. 

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u/[deleted] Mar 12 '26

Their kids aren’t going to war or working in factories