Re: Repairing broken stuff; my UO is that the fast fashion items aren't all low quality junk. You can buy cheap clothes and wear them for a long time.
I've had tops and trousers that I've worn for nearly a decade, they're all from high street brands. It's true, the clothes lose their shape in time but it's also not that hard to wash them properly and take care of them well. If I get a hole or a tear, I just mend it. I've worn a 5 quid coat from Primark for years, I just used a fabric shaver to remove the pilling, hung it using a hanger instead of the collar and got it dry cleaned once a year. They've lasted me well enough, nobody would mistake them for designer clothes but I don't care as long as I look put together, clean and tidy.
A lot of designer clothes are also produced by modern day slaves for insanely low wages, the guilty part is not the low income person who needs to buy cheap clothes in order to dress themselves. It's the industry that constantly creates microtrends for people to consume, people who buy a piece of clothing to wear it once and then send it off to the landfill, and the corporations that don't want to fork out for living wages and safe work spaces for their employees because they want bigger profit. I hate it when rich woke people on Instagram shame others for shopping at H&M and Primark. If you want change, hold the right part accountable.