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   Sini Tuulia (sinituulia@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Friday, 01-Sep-2023 21:31:16 JST Sini Tuulia

   Just because I was thinking about it - you do know every single piece of clothing you wear was made by human hands, right?
   Currently there exists only a handful of garment manufacture processes that can be done by robots, and very few that it's not cheaper to have some underprivileged human do it instead.

   Every single stitch that puts together one fabric piece to another, though? Put there by a human with human hands, every time. We should pay them!

   #WorkersRights #TextileIndustry #FastFashion

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     KristinMuH (kristinmuh@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 01-Sep-2023 21:31:12 JST KristinMuH

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     @sinituulia learning that there's no such thing as a crochet machine really blew my mind - all those cute boho tops are made by some horrifically underpaid person with a hook

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     Sini Tuulia (sinituulia@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Friday, 01-Sep-2023 21:31:14 JST Sini Tuulia

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     Note: "every single" used here for emphasis and more colloquially than with absolute certainty, because technically your socks will have been made using different knitting machines, that generally still need humans to operate them, and often to do hand finishing, depending on the type. I don't know the type of socks you wear or how they were made, you might have robot socks though it's very unlikely.
     Still.

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