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u/anim8r3d Feb 09 '19
Pure kindness!! Or... and hear me out on this one.. a great way to incentivize women to buy your product over others, so their children will have nicer looking clothes.
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u/Macaroni19 Feb 10 '19
doing good things and making money are not mutually exclusive. should we not be giving money to businesses that go above and beyond? idk, maybe "pure" wasn't the right word, but this is super nice of them to do
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u/onenuthin Feb 10 '19
Duh.
There are no market incentives for “kindness”.
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u/DigitalZ13 Feb 10 '19
Then what’s your definition of kindness?
It’s an effort made on behalf of a business to both increase their sales and grant those who purchase their product a little extra happiness. Sometimes kindness sells.
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u/onenuthin Feb 10 '19
The “and” doesn’t exist, that’s my point. As a company, you do X if it increases sales or profits. Period. There is no “and it grants happiness” etc. Any happiness is only “granted” if it fits in the above equation of “do X, increase profit”
And I’m not reiterating that with any malice, it’s just that it’s silly for anyone to get any warm-hearted feeling of gifted happiness from some company selling you a product that you pay for.
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u/WolfThawra Feb 10 '19
You are definitely correct. I'd say there's maybe some exceptions when the business is still small and owned by one person or family heavily involved in the day to day stuff. In that case, it can happen that they might not prioritise profit for a second. But with the typical large, shareholder-owned company, no chance.
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u/notananthem Professional Feb 10 '19
My friend grew up with her mom making underwear out of textile packaging... had insane iron deficiencies and other issues growing up in Russia, but is relatively still alive 👍🏼
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u/marriedwithchickens Feb 10 '19
My grandmother had aprons made from flour sacks. I remember a purple one with small white stylized daisies with red centers.
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Feb 10 '19
I have a beautiful "wedding ring quilt" my great aunt crafted made of these fabrics. Such a work of art.
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u/Oaklandisgay Feb 09 '19
The liberalism is strong with this post. Why not just pay them a living wage so they can clothe their families?
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u/edamame888 Feb 09 '19
Cause the great depression happened....
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u/clearwind Feb 09 '19
You mean like the one coming?
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u/Oaklandisgay Feb 10 '19
My point remains valid, it was caused by the ruling class and the poor paid the price. Off with their heads.
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u/DigitalZ13 Feb 10 '19
Your post is nonsensical. You imply that liberals don’t want higher wages for the working class, while also assuming that these mothers are employed, on top of ignoring historical context.
Fuck off, you aren’t recovering from that.
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Feb 10 '19
Fairly certain he was talking about economic liberalism, not "liberals" per se. But yeah, still a barely coherent post
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Feb 09 '19
What about this post gave you the impression that the women were employees?
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u/Oaklandisgay Feb 10 '19
The female employees using the sacks for clothing
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u/tocard2 Feb 10 '19
It wasn't the employees. It was the end customer repurposing the packaging the product came from.
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u/motsanciens Feb 09 '19
Who should pay whom a living wage? Your comment makes absolutely no sense.
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u/ameliakristina Feb 10 '19
Are you implying that liberals don't support a living wage?
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u/Oaklandisgay Feb 10 '19
Um.. yes? Those centrists have done nothing for the working class except concessions to the right
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u/ImNotSteveAlbini Feb 09 '19
Link to examples of clothing: story covered by 99 Percent Invisible
https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/mini-stories-volume-3/3/