I love that places like this still exist. They’ve been in this location for decades.

In a world of rapid product replacement/upgrade cycles, AI, and mass production, this person just fixes your broken shoes.

They did me right with mine. It felt good to fix instead of replace with something new.

#RightToRepair #LandfillCapitalism #Capitalism #MomAndPop #Local

Why do most of the people who complain about hire bikes and scooters being parked on the footpaths not also complain about cars being parked in the streets?

The hand-wringing about landfill capitalists is fair enough, but car companies are the OG landfill capitalists. Let's ban cars from our cities and towns, while we're banning hire bicycle and scooters.

#urbanism #landfillcapitalism #cars

#LandfillCapitalism

Your stuff is actually worse now
How the cult of consumerism ushered in an era of badly made products.

https://www.vox.com/the-goods/23529587/consumer-goods-quality-fast-fashion-technology