NY Times Op-Ed: Sorry, Etsy. That handmade scarf won't save the world.

[LiberalElite]

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/03/opinion/sunday/that-handmade-scarf-wont-save-the-world.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&version=Moth-Visible&module=inside-nyt-region®ion=inside-nyt-region&WT.nav=inside-nyt-region

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In her memoir, “Loretta Lynn: Coal Miner’s Daughter,” Ms. Lynn remembers the thrill of receiving her first “store-boughten” dress from a social services agent when she was around 7. It was blue with pink flowers and “dainty little pockets.”

“Mercy, how I loved it,” the singer recalls. Unfortunately, the family hog loved it, too. The dress was chewed to pieces and the young Ms. Lynn had to go back to wearing the dresses her mother sewed from old flour sacks.

Today, some 75 years later, you can buy a little blue dress with pink flowers on Walmart.com for $6.44. A handmade flour sack dress, on the other hand, will cost you $90 on Etsy.
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[enlightenment]

1. Interesting piece.

I was fuming a bit through the first half of it, thinking she was headed one direction - and then she headed in the exact opposite direction and my head-shaking turned to nodding in agreement.

[msongs]

2. etsy is gradually turning into a bazaaar for China Inc goods falsely advertised as "homemade" nt