Aisha Barenblatt
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
You know, there are certain companies that I like very much, but for the most part, for the last decade, I'd say I've bought very little.
Like you come see my closet and there's, you know, six classic pieces.
I do a little rental, a little vintage.
It's tiny, subcontracted, overcrowded factories with these juky machines.
Come look at the factories in South Asia, not just in China, in Cambodia, in Bangladesh.
Some of these are state-of-the-art facilities, innovative, you know, with robotics and AI and using clean technology.
This is an aging workforce, you know, who is going to do the skill development that's needed without investment in workforce, without investment in R&D, in technology, in actual factory development and patience.
It's not as though these jobs are just going to come back.
These jobs are not going to, we're not going to make iPhones in America and we're not going to make a lot of clothes in America.
We don't know how to, like, let's just put that out there.
doesn't really know how to make those bras.
No, look in your closet and see where most of your bras come from.