My take is this. Say what you want about Henry Ford, he was a man who truly loved to drive and wanted to make great cars. Same with old Hollywood studio bosses; horrible people who really wanted to make great movies. Now all the bosses are MBAs who care only about the bottom line. Their names aren't connected to the product and they couldn't care less about whether what they make is of any use whatsoever.
this post was submitted on 20 Jul 2025
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The executives certainly deserve a lot of the blame. But most large corporations are owned by hedge funds, private equity and other layers of obfuscation that are designed to shield the powerful from accountability. After a few layers of abstraction nothing matters but line go up and if line not go up, the C-suite gets replaced before you can say "golden parachute". These guys only care for the next quarterly results and are trying to ride the gravy train for as long as possible.
We’ll stop wearing them after a year
Who the hell buys clothes like that? It can’t be sustainable for your wallet let alone the planet.
I think you've got a lot of people who have never been exposed to the idea of long term use of clothes. If you have the idea that the most important thing is looking good, then it makes sense to get something that you intend to throw away.
When AR goggles become ubiquitous, we'll wear simple, gray modesty garments, and they'll rent us digital clothes. The world will look however we want, lush, and expensive, but in reality, we'll live in plain boxes. "Rich" people will have bigger boxes. Reality will be reserved for the filthy rich, you'll recognize them immediately, because they won't be wearing goggles.