Clothing Companies That Treat Workers Fairly

The Minimalists

Joshua Fields Millburn

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🗓️ 9 June 2022

⏱️ 6 minutes

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The Minimalists discuss clothing companies that provide employees with safe working conditions and appropriate compensation for their work. Listen to full episodes of The Minimalists Private Podcast: patreon.com/theminimalists

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0:00.0	How do we find clothing companies that use good quality fabrics and treat their workers
0:12.1	fairly?
0:13.1	Hmm.
0:14.1	This is the perfect time to talk about greenwashing, Ryan.
0:17.0	Yeah.
0:18.0	What is greenwashing?
0:19.0	Oh, it's a company.
0:20.0	It makes me think of like seventh generation.
0:22.6	For example, like they do a good job of doing unscented things.
0:28.1	They try to use chemicals that are good for the environment, but it's a gimmick.
0:32.9	It's not like an actual company that is really worried about having a positive impact
0:39.6	on the environment.
0:41.1	They just, they use the green as a marketing play centrally.
0:44.1	So is that what you mean by greenwashing?
0:45.7	Yeah.
0:46.7	So let's be clear.
0:47.7	No company worries about the environment because companies can't worry, right?
0:51.2	And so there may be someone at the head of a company, like a B corporation, which we talked
0:55.7	about on the minimal episode, they're on the public episode there.
0:59.3	A B corporation does have some sort of social responsibility.
1:04.7	And they want to have a social and environmental positive effect, right?
1:09.6	So greenwashing here is the specific definition.
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