$282 Pants
November 21st, 2007
The other day I was passing through a well known store in the Seattle area. I glanced at some clothes and slowed down. I couldn’t believe my eyes - $282 for a pair of jeans. I stopped. Picked them up. Looked for the gold thread. I couldn’t believe it.
As I looked at the other over priced clothes on the table accompanying the jeans I kept wishing that a sales person would ask to help me. I wanted to ask them why - why are these jeans worth $282? I also wanted to tell someone, anyone, that 1/3 of the world’s population lives on less than $1 a day. In other words - 282 days = one pair of jeans!
God help us!
November 28th, 2007 at 6:29 am
The flip side of that is that you can go to Costco and buy a nice practical pair of jeans for $14.95 USD. Which were probably made in Indonesia or China. By someone who makes $1 a day.
Economics is complicated!
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