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French lawmakers vote to slow down fast fashion with penalties (www.france24.com)
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France’s parliament on Thursday backed a string of measures making low-cost fast fashion, especially from Chinese mass producers, less attractive to buyers.

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[–] 29 points 2 years ago (12 children)

European countries may not be perfect, but they do seem to have working governments that produce legislation not 110% beholden to economic interest of corporations

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  • [–] 17 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    that produce legislation not 110% beholden to economic interest of corporations

    France has a massive Fashion industry with Bernard Arnault competing for the richest person on the planet position. But even a brand like Kenzo is far from being fash fashion (Just checked on Zalando, kids T-shirt at 100 EUR, no wonder why the owner is so rich) so it's not hindering the biggest French corpo.

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  • [+] -6 points 2 years ago (8 children)

    There's a lot of protectionism though.

    Like this will drive higher inflation.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago* (7 children)

    Inflation does not seem worse over there than in "free for all"Β© capitalism in the USA

    PS: to be fair, USA is very protectionist as well, it's just they only protect the 1%

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    to be fair, USA is very protectionist as well,

    I'm having good laugh watching Americans call everyone protectionism but passing a law to force foreign company to sell their social media to an US company.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    A tax like this will make the prices of some goods go up. Such price increases are measured as inflation.

    This is a highly regressive tax. It's 50% on certain items below 5 EUR (soon 10) and less for items above that. Over the price, the rate goes down. For items at 50 EUR (100 EUR), it is only 10%.

    Making cheap clothing in particular more expensive doesn't sound much like looking out for the 99%.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    Well none of the measures to curve rampant consumism lead to cheaper prices

    I was happy to hear the side of slowing down "fast fashion" because it is Hot garbage

    But you are right, there are more aspects to this issue

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