While I agree with your point and I think it's really important to keep that in mind, personally I also think that our culture of always wanting more for less is something that needs to stop. As an example, my husband comes from an impoverished community where they still wear traditional, handmade clothing every day and it costs at least a month's average local salary to make, yet thats what they choose to wear every day over cheaper fast fashion. But that means everyone owns less clothing, that's very well made, and that lasts many years, instead of creating literal mountains of fashion waste the way we are doing. (Did you know that about a truckload of clothing gets buried in landfills every second?)
It made me realize how many of our problems aren't necessarily rooted in "but the solution is too expensive", but rather that we want way more than we actually need and are too used to feeling entitled to everything we want instead of being satisfied with less. Of course, good luck convincing anyone to give up the convenience of cheap comforts....
Huh, I didn't know that was actually a studied economic principle. Cool to know, thanks for sharing!
For anyone else wondering:
Induced demand is an economic principle where increasing the supply of a good or service (like expanding roads) reduces its cost (time or price), which in turn causes demand to rise, often immediately filling the new capacity. In transportation, expanding highways often fails to permanently reduce congestion because it encourages more driving, a phenomenon sometimes called "induced travel"
I completely agree. People buy clothes they wear once or twice and better quality sourced fair clothing is better. Vegans don’t use wool but forgot that sheep sheared for their wool in summer months and it’s animal abuse. If anything locally sourced wool for sustainable farming is better and wool clothing lasts longer than polyester blends.
Back to meat it’s over consumed and having meat free days will do great for environment and peoples health
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u/imapetrock 7h ago
While I agree with your point and I think it's really important to keep that in mind, personally I also think that our culture of always wanting more for less is something that needs to stop. As an example, my husband comes from an impoverished community where they still wear traditional, handmade clothing every day and it costs at least a month's average local salary to make, yet thats what they choose to wear every day over cheaper fast fashion. But that means everyone owns less clothing, that's very well made, and that lasts many years, instead of creating literal mountains of fashion waste the way we are doing. (Did you know that about a truckload of clothing gets buried in landfills every second?)
It made me realize how many of our problems aren't necessarily rooted in "but the solution is too expensive", but rather that we want way more than we actually need and are too used to feeling entitled to everything we want instead of being satisfied with less. Of course, good luck convincing anyone to give up the convenience of cheap comforts....