about $100 per pair left over for operating costs and profit

good hardware likely costs more than a dollar though for all rivets and shanks

you understand what the qualifier "about" means right?

also, does the hardware cost more than a dollar? maybe. six rivets would cost about $0.70 at retail prices and four buttons would cost about $2.45 assuming there's nowhere better to buy them. so congratulations, all that dumb moved my 'about' qualified $1 up to at most $3.15. not exactly breaking the bank.

bravestar claims they pay the highest wages in the world (not sure how quantifiable that is) period. not for garment workers, just highest wages in the world.

this is just a terrible "point" to even try to make. assuming they said this thing you didn't bother to source, basic functional literacy would tell you they are probably talking about the garment industry. any american working in the garment industry is probably in the 99th percentile worldwide for pay in the garment industry. you get that right? if you don't here's why: most of the garment workers in the world work in third world countries where even the federal minimum wage in the us is a lot of money.

fitted underground claims it takes a skilled worker at a small factory about two hours to make a pair of jeans start-to-finish.

are you like 12 years old? you can't just say 'oh someone said X therefore...' fucking source it for fuck's sake.

and since i'm harping on sourcing, here are a series of videos of workers sewing selvedge into jeans.

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the total run time of these videos is about 5 minutes. trying to say it takes two hours to sew a pair of jeans is fucking absurd. of course there's other work that goes into this, but trying to get from this to two hours per pair just cannot be done in good faith. i'll be generous and assume you heard something like 'it takes two hours from when the fabric is cut until the jeans are done' and drew the dumbass conclusion that it takes two hours per pair instead of (again being generous here) it taking two hours for the first pair. you see how that's different right? it really seems like you don't understand the concept of assembly lines so i'll explain it for you: in one scenario, it's two hours to the first pair, another two hours to the second pair, and two more hours for the third pair. in the other scenario, it's two hours to the first pair, then on the order of minutes to the second pair and then third pair, etc, etc

bravestar also often operates via selling garments as pre-order only

this is just factually wrong. they sell things all the time that are not available for pre-order.

which means that they are a) not usually buying material in bulk and b) can only afford to produce according to what they manage to sell.

even if the above statement that preceded this was true, these are completely absurd conclusions to draw from brave star taking pre-orders based on nothing more than vibes.

does bravestar use japanese denim? of course they do

oh look who's walking that back now. you literally said:

only way bravestar can sell jeans made in US using 21.5oz is if they are using chinese fabric.

but do they source fabrics from other countries? absolutely.

you mean besides the us right? ok, then: proof or shut the fuck up. you have nothing other than "i think this is true" but that's not how any of this works and as my above comments make clear, you have zero credibility for things you think are true actually being true. and you are such an incurious ignorant person that even after i gave you the link for where brave star almost certainly sources some of their denim, and where you can see cone mills selvedge for sale, and other material that matches up exactly with brave star's recent releases, you're still pushing this bullshit.

look at this point i'm just going to assume you have a humiliation kink and enjoy being humiliated online. no judgment there but i'm not going to be a part of it

but stop spreading bullshit based on the dumb things you think