• @[email protected]
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    1 year ago

    That’s why I wrote “the vast majority”??

    And hundreds of miles, before you throw away a pair of shoes, my… Look, that might mean much to a Northern American who drives everywhere.

    “Hundreds of miles” is what I actually run each year, and then I get lots of hiking and just walking around on top of that. I guess I can measure my Redwings and Hanwag in tens of thousands kilometers each, and my Lundhags I could pass down if I had kids.

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      11 year ago

      I’m not sure I was disagreeing with you in the previous statement. I haven’t thrown my shoes I’ve only put hundreds of miles on yet.

      My point is that it isn’t exactly easy to find good shoes unless you invest a lot of money into them, especially in North America since we’re specifying locales. Most stores, even specialty stores, don’t carry custom-made or handmade shoes that are re-soleable. You could blame that on car-dependency, but it’s more likely due to an overall lack of understanding why one would need shoes that last much longer. People spend their money on cheaper, shorter-life shoes because they don’t have that much money to begin with.

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        11 year ago

        I’m not sure I was disagreeing with you in the previous statement

        Then don’t repeat things I explicitly mentioned, as if I said something else?

        Also get better examples. Brooks break down as easy as Asics, Saucony, whatever. They are exactly the “single use” product I spoke about, making the shoe and clothing industry in general highly non carbon neutral, which was my point.

        it isn’t exactly easy to find good shoes unless you invest a lot of money into them

        Yes, it’s called the Sam Vimes “Boots” theory of socioeconomic unfairness.

        You could blame that on car-dependency

        I don’t blame that on anything but capitalism.