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by aforwardslash 243 days ago
The loom dropped production costs immensely - even hand-made clothes are done with premade fabrics, they dont do it from scratch.

Mass produced clothing exists in many industrialized countries - typically the premium stuff; the sweatshop stuff is quite cheaper, and customers are happy paying less; its not capitalism, its consumer greed. But nice story.