… to. But the globalized nature of our economy has hidden the real costs of this cheap crap from us. Much of our cheap junk is poorly made. It’s so cheap that we’d rather throw it away than fix it when it inevitably falls apart. It’s cheap because it’s manufactured by people making wages we would find insulting in conditions that would horrify us. We’ve been able to enjoy our cheap T-shirts without having to contemplate the fact that the cotton that makes them up may have been harvested in Xinjiang by political prisoners and turned into fabric in an unsafe factory in Bangladesh.