Quote: (09-11-2016 10:53 AM)Sp5 Wrote:
Again, the guy is personally admirable for his austerity and his hard work. But he's just making more stuff for the global fashion / mass media / social media mill.
Feminism is 90% a product of the market: women spend more on things they don't need, so they needed to be freed to be able to make and spend their own money, because this boosts economic growth. Women's employment and "liberation" is a stated goal for aid programs which aim to boost economic growth in developing countries. Because when they made money, they spend it. It's not a secret.
"Fashion" is the constant excitation of material desires for status and glamour in women. It is part of why women want to trade up with men.
I see your point. But the very few times I entered (with women, in malls) a Zara store, I had (not that I was looking closely, granted) the impression that Zara's products are not so bad, quite ok looking, not very degenerate (even though you did find some bad, beta tee-shirts above, sure)... Let's say, Zara is not perfect but probably (or so I hope) above average in terms of design and principles?
By the way, I never said that this Spanish man was perfect: once or twice in his life he had to bow, a little bit, before globalists (Caritas got to him, at the end, but just once and for pocket money), but, it's not too bad... I mean, almost all his life he maintained his independence and hard-work principles, and humble -though successful- profile. He also got himself a (second-spouse) woman much better looking than the homey Facebook wife (and he divorced in good, gentleman terms with his first wife)...
Anyway, once again: what I find the most remarkable is, this man persevered ten years (or twelve years even!) sewing clothes in his living-room, so strong was his commitment, his trust in his business plan, and then he made it to billionaire. Ten years working like a dog, with one thought in mind: "I will succeed, I'll keep on!".