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You seem so certain despite having it backwards as likely as not.

the western ordered cheap quality overproduction solution of swamping developing countries with it, where much also ends in a trash heap, means they can continue the exploitive and environmentally destructive mass production.

Smaller local industries would be economically better for the countries, supply more aligned so less waste, and there’d be less of the bad factories in Bangladesh.

I read this as "We've had our industrial revolution. No, we don't want you to get yours."

Note specifically that I said local industry. I don't mean some factory owned by a global chain.

I'm specifically talking about local, small business. Giant companies usually have better labor protections in the 3rd-4th world than small buisness does.

people making clothes for themselves to and to sell in a subsistence living style isnt quite comparable though, and not working exploitatively to extract the wealth from labour to a different country has a value of its own