It’s not crappy and it doesn’t suck. Products should reflect living wage labor costs.

If you can only afford one ethical item instead of ten fast fashion ones, it’s a good thing. Value your stuff, learn to repair it, maybe help turn back this trend of wearing a new thing every day.

So massively increasing the carbon footprint will help us decrease carbon footprint?

This action makes no sense at all beyond financial interests of a tiny minority, and is like spitting in the face of all the people suffering from the consequences of climate change.