re: #179 Eclectic Cyborg

Also, these guys know nothing about what is happening with women’s fashions these days. Consignments, an excess of second-hand clothing means that it’s possible to get a pretty extensive wardrobe for a lot less than you think. And in NYC, it’s probably even better odds than that. Let’s not forget she has friends who can give her clothes too.

I’ts the whole right-wing out of touchness that gets me about everything, especially about financially challenged people. They ask, why can they afford such nice stuff? One, China, folks. Secondly, one ironic benefit of the aging of the Baby Boom has been downsizing, which has made a lot of stuff available that is barely used. I”ve been a beneficiary of both things from furniture, to my mom’s wardrobe, to household appliances that are cheaper than before. The real issues are things that can’t be so easily secondhanded like housing, medical bills, and student loans. Which is what Ocasio is concerned with.

Clothes are easy, housing is hard, which is one of the things she campaigned on. The stock of second-hand housing is being gentrified out of existence, moving very poor people out to suburbs that have poor mass transit, if not on the streets.