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[saint_monkey]

in the disturbing news column, one can buy dress pants in target for less than the cost of dry cleaning them. this means that it would be just as easy to run over to target every few weeks and pick up a new pair of pants, and throw the old ones away. dry cleaning them, really isn't viable in a cost benefits analysis. should i feel good about this? i wonder where they are made, or synthesized or what? or by whom or what? i would hate to wear the pants knowing that children in bangaladesh are sewing them up in between their eight hour stints rolling bidi cigarettes. and they aren't bad pants, they may wear out quickly, i would expect that in disposable pants, but superficially they are indistinguishable from the much much nicer dress pants that i paid six times more for at a tailor. but i don't want to support slavery or even a consumerist lifestyle. i certainly don't want to encourage filling the landfills with cheap poly-cotton blend pants. on the other hand, i need pants. most of all, i am appalled that i am so lazy that i find the idea of simply buying new pants appealing on a very base, Tyler Durden "Screw the environment" level. PC backlash, perhaps.