r/Anticonsumption • u/Positive-Grape5126 • 8d ago

Corporations Lululemon CEO Upset

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I'll save you the read:

1) People are tightening their belts due to economic and political uncertainty and expensive leggings are not at the top of the list of necessities

2) People are more and more... GASP... Buying second hand clothes !!!!!

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u/flo-ridad 8d ago

That's what Henry Ford understood early on. He raised wages and implemented 2-day weekends not out of sympathy for workers, but because:

- He wanted his workers to be able to buy cars and have time to use them

  • He wanted to set a standard on the market to force other companies to follow suit (thus turning their employees into potential Ford customers)

The spreadsheet managers that run companies these days forget that simple insight that fueled capitalism for most of the 20th century

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u/Worldly-Loquat4471 8d ago

Henry Ford may have been a good capitalist, but was also a proto Nazi racist and real piece of shit

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u/BusGuilty6447 8d ago

good capitalist

If by good, you mean competent, then sure. If by good, you mean moral, then no, you made an oxymoron.

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u/HuckleberryTiny5 8d ago

They did not mean "moral".