Re: Split debate-Spending thousands on a wedding dress
Bebo and all those that agree with her you wanna know why people r poor in Pakistan, it's no because designers sell dresses for $4k it is because people there r uneducated, when they grow up they have no realvalue to provida to society they stay poor, their kids don't go to school and the cycle continues. America on the other hand also has many many uneducated people but many here value education and the country believes strongly in capitalism unlike many people in Pakistan. Capitalism leads to better standards of living. How? Because people with talents, education hard work, motivation go out and try to sell their products and services so they can make money, provide something of value to society and increase a country standards of living. This is the same thing a designer in Pakistan does, they should lower their prices and decrease their standard if living just so someone that can't afford the dress now can? Does apple lower the price of their MacBook so everyone can buy them? The designer that made michelle obamas dress, isabel Toledo, is not an international designer in fact not even popular nationally yet the dress that michelle wore was around $1500.
Do you think a bag by louis vuitton actually costs them $1k to make? I'm sure the fixed costs of that bag are less than $100. Designers have many costs that you may not see most of which are marketing. Yes indeed any good designer would make a lot of money even after the costs but isn't that something they deserve to be providing a great service not only to us but finally putting Pakistan in the international fashion industry?