[iosystem]

Reminds me of recently reading an opinion about how thrifting has been ruined by the upper middle class. The person expressed how thrifting is a necessary need when growing up poor and how the trend of thrifting in popularity among middle class has reduced the quantity of quality items to basically none. Quality of life I believe is getting worse for a lot of people regardless of how long we can force people to stay alive with medical means.

[mock-possum]

Sounds like they were confusing a business for a charity. There are exceptions, but most thrift shops are the former.

[dclowd9901]

If anything, thrifting is about the most democratized activity there is. The bad that I see in thrifting is resellers who dedicate their whole life to combing thrift stores, estate sales and garage sales, finding items with a lot of resale value so they can hock them on EBay or in their own boutiques.