I know EU has the Right to Repair initiative and that’s a step to the right direction. Still I’m left to wonder, how did we end up in a situation where it’s often cheaper to just buy a new item than fix the old?
What can individuals, communities, countries and organizations do to encourage people to repair rather than replace with a new?
I have to wonder how much a needle and thread is where you are that buying a new pair of pants is cheaper than patching a hole/tear in the ones you already have. Clothing is one of the few things that doesn’t have this problem… But it also has an oversaturation problem so I could see pants being basically free in some parts of the world.
I’m talking about how much it costs to get this service, rather doing it yourself. It will take longer to do it yourself as someone who isn’t doing it every day (and you don’t have a sewing machine in this scenario, right?)