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That was my point. People who expect me to go cruelty-free think I can afford to.
A better approach is probably to focus on clothes that last, and keep them longer. Of course those are also more expensive but it should even out over the long run
You could afford to, if companies were forced to go cruelty free. Clothing manufacturing is currently one of the most profitable industries, outpacing energy, fossil fuels, and technology industries while producing more new billionaires.
Do you really think that if they were forced to stop abusing animals, those companies would close shop and stop trying to sell textiles? That they would suddenly try to charge absurd prices for the same clothing you buy now?
Prices aren't set by costs, they are set by what the market will beat. Profits are the difference between costs and what the market will bear. Clothing companies charge exactly as much as they can to generate the sales volume they want, and nothing less. They want to sell you cheap clothes.
This applies to every industry. Nestle would find a way to sell chocolate even if they were forced to stop using child slave labor.
Okay, and? What do you want us to do about it? Those companies are never willingly going to become cruelty free, and the government will never force them to while the ~~bribery~~, I mean, lobbying continues.
The only way these companies will go cruelty free is if people totally stop buying non-cruelty free products, which again won't happen because most people can't afford cruelty free products.
Got it. People on this site are ~~stupid~~ idealistic as hell, so it's probably good that I spelled out why these things are expensive. I wouldn't be surprised if some folks thought animal cruelty exists in these industries because people are mean.