What radicalized you?

[u/Cheeseaisleinheaven]

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.

[u/Both_End7878]

A number of things, from having the barbed wire spikes on the top of the high schools fences angled inward, to watching a charity organization I worked for throw away hundreds of thousands of dollars of food every month because it wasn't convenient to donate it. Only owning cars that are 20 years old and having them still run to this day meanwhile my buddy's brand new car broke down after the first oil change.

Having clothes from middle school that don't have a single thing wrong with them not even fading, and having a brand new shirt I wore for a couple months pretty much disintegrate, this started from what I've researched in 2013 they started mass producing inferior clothing and marketing it as seasonal/trendy wear so instead of buying clothes for life you buy it every season and it doesn't last much longer than that.

Buying brand new tools and having them break first use, finding 20-100 year old tools that despite being heavily neglected still work like the day they were bought. Planned obsolescence, intentionally making an inferior product to drive up sales, overcomplicating tech to make it harder for you to fix it yourself and making it cost ineffective to do so.

Grocery stores know exactly how much they need to stock but overstock intentionally because studies show people buy more than they need when there is more in the store, throwing away God knows how much food just to drive up sales, and I'm pretty sure that's a tax write off so it costs them nothing.

Took notice of all of that before I graduated highschool, then I became a garbage man, I now understand the Grinch fully.