I was breaking sweat at the gym’s treadmill and I caught a glance of a text in a TV ad, but it took me several seconds to process what I saw and then it was over.
I came home, googled it and found if not the same company, somebody using the same words…. and my jaw dropped at the stupidity and ignorance.
The top part is the actual description in their website. I added the bottom for shock value.
We are talking massive message failure from the people that came up with the idea of “hand-harvested cotton,” and the dumbasses that approved it.
but they are made in India….. not in the evil American south…. you cant make this shiite up…
Interesting.
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One of the tenants of communism / socialism is that something’s worth is proportional to the amount of labor that went into it, not what it’s made from, what it does, or what benefits it provides to society. So in that light, the pillows and whatnot are worth more than those made from machine-harvested and -processed materials, because there’s more manual labor that went into them.
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An alternate view, which I more often hear espoused by those who don’t want to pick up a shovel (blisters, you know), is that the worth is proportional to the time it takes for someone to make something. So a sculpture someone makes out of their armpit hair, toenail clippings and earwax, that took six months to put togther, “should be” as valuable as, say, a cubesat, or perhaps a new 4-lane highway.
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If it seems like this all would tend to move civilization backwards, I would tend to agree.
Now, if I were to market fruits or vegetables as “hand harvested” it would be a big seller.
My father picked cotton in Texas during the depression. 50 cents for 100 pounds.
they have rediscovered field slavery!
Congratulations!
(spit) Fools.