I think there used to be a difference but nowadays they just slap an expensive label on white label goods
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Fisch@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
Already seen some of those myself. But did people actually think that those expensive brands didn’t just buy from the same factories every other clothing company buys from?
fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 1 day ago
Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Afaik french haute couture shit (like Vuitton) really don’t. They’d rather play with all the grey areas of the law of various European countries to buy their leather from some factories in Italy where work safety standards are seen as more of guidelines than rules and they illegally employ immigrants to pay them the shittiest salary possible. Then get that shit to France and pay someone a pittance to make the bag even though it’s very tedious and precise work, so you can say it was made in France with European leather.
BaroqueInMind@lemmy.one 1 day ago
That all still sounds better than the Foxconn Chinese slave camps that had the suicide nets around the perimeter of all their buildings.
orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts 1 day ago
Pretty sad state of affairs when our choices are human rights violation 1 or human rights violation 2.
Sauerkraut@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
Basic dignity will always be at odds with profit motive. We need eternal vigilance and working class solidarity to keep capitalism in check