Your toaster dies the second you unbox it. Pants rip on day one. The quality of everything is trash now. This is what bigheaded people call enshittification. Companies deliberately design products to break right after the warranty. This is due to the so-called “Hunt for Infinite growth.” Steady profits ain’t enough. They need MORE, so they skimp, shrink packages, and shove everything behind subscriptions. Infinite growth is a plague, and it hurts your personal finance.
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Thrifting is a great way to ethically buy clothes. You can often find brand new $50+ shirts with tags for ~$5. I have a full closet of higher end apparel that cost me < $200.
Although it is a time investment, which is another thing poor people are often short on.