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"ZOURI is an eco-vegan footwear brand that uses plastic trash from the Portuguese coast together with ecologic and sustainable materials."

100% made in Portugal. Also those soles are epic.

Check them out: https://www.zouri-shoes.com/

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 days ago (1 children)

It was a joke, like saying a vacuum really sucks

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

To be fair I stated it very dryly, it could easily sound like a judgment before a joke ;)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago

Still embarrassing πŸ˜‚

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

One might think they'd be cheaper.

Edit: to clarify, I do know that if shoes are cheap they're likely to be made by children and that ethically made shoes will be more expensive. However, labour costs aren't the only thing that determines the price, material costs are a thing as well. (And companies would love us to think that this factor is the main deciding one because they can't really skimp on that without losing quality, now can they?) So my thought process was that these shoes made from trash presumably have lower material costs than conventional ones that are made ethically from non-trash materials so shouldn't they be cheaper?

All I know is I have a hard time justifying 120 € shoes, no matter how and from what they're made.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Common foreign child labour W.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Non-native here, I'm very sorry but I can't parse that sentence.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

format of the meme is: common/rare... W/L

With w being win and l being lose, meaning that someone often (or not so) does something well (or not well)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

Oh. So it's not because I'm non-native, it's worse: I'm old and have lost touch with modern culture. Thank you for indulging an old fart (T_T)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

"No matter what you do as a manufacturer you will never be able to offer competitive prices unless you exploit child labour in some 3rd world country."

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

It's gibberish. Young people or middle-aged people who are afraid to let go have developed a way of speaking that is similar to a small child's.

I believe the point they were making is that people are used to cheap prices because of the use of child labor. These shoes are expensive compared to that, leading to that gibberish-speaker claiming a win for child labor.