i think it’d be preferable for an average worker to buy one pair of shoes that can be maintained and repaired when broken and thus last a lifetime of work, because it would be cheaper than buy a new pair every year because the overpriced shit they keep peddling us can’t even be repaired beyond a certain point. but alas, such is life in capitalist west. capitalism is when no shoes (or housing, or healthcare, or representation in government, or freedom of speech, or no unecessary wars, or money…)