Not money, but time. In my experience, finding a local mutual aid group or place is a great place to start doing meaningful work and also a great way to meet awesome people.

And still not enough to curb the amount of trash being produced, shipped around the world and then trashed locally when it doesn’t match the expectations of the buyer / rips after putting it on.

A bit off-topic, sorry, but the difference between the answers to similar questions in this community (Lemmy) and others is quite staggering. Here we have people talking openly about non monogamous approaches in healthy and mature ways. Love it!

Can someone eli5 why that is?

That is bananas! The implementation details are worth a read. Plus, all the links to other bananas projects are great.