Thanks for the response. I do think the wasting is heartbreaking and extremely sad. People are buying poor-quality products to make themselves feel better, and the more gifts they buy for someone, the better they feel. It’s wild: this contributes to landfills, people are spending their hard-earned money on items, and people living in the countries that manufacture these items don’t have clothes.
The whole thing just makes my blood boil.
I do understand you can buy good products from Temu, but these usually aren’t clothes.
JUST because it’s cheap doesn’t mean you should buy it. I suppose the richer society gets, the more we will waste.
I posted this on strawman because I needed a safe place to ask such a naive question. Thank you all for contributing.
I went to my girlfriend's house. Her grandma brought her like two bags full of temu stuff. I didn’t realise old people buy from them so much. She ended up keeping two teams. I was amazed by the whole experience. Being a value investor, I died a little inside, like we exploited child labour just to put it all in the bin and burn it.