Comments on: To Make A Difference By Design http://blog.genuinedesign.com/?p=34 Education and opinions about design authenticity Thu, 09 Sep 2010 00:15:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: Eric http://blog.genuinedesign.com/?p=34&cpage=1#comment-207 Eric Mon, 22 Jun 2009 18:17:09 +0000 http://blog.genuinedesign.com/?p=34#comment-207 Ethics and design are both in the realm of ideas, and they're related whether you like it or not. But you're only addressing the physical manufacture of a commodity. What about the person who labored to design the chair in the first place? Designers typically spend years of work and a lots of their own money on prototypes and variations before hitting a version that is commercially viable. Nobody reimburses them for that investment; the aim is to profit from the legitimate replication of the design by an honest manufacturer who has entered into a license with the designer. Why should pirates, who took no risk, profit at the expense of the person who owns the design or their family? In your world there would be new designs because potential designers would go into other fields. Society figured that out long ago and passed legal protections for intellectual property rights because it's good for the economy, and therefore in the interest of the greatest good for the most people. Legitimate manufacturers don't use child labor, they pay people a wage. You are advocating giving the work to criminal counterfeiters who exploit child and prison labor. Shame on you. Ethics and design are both in the realm of ideas, and they’re related whether you like it or not. But you’re only addressing the physical manufacture of a commodity. What about the person who labored to design the chair in the first place? Designers typically spend years of work and a lots of their own money on prototypes and variations before hitting a version that is commercially viable. Nobody reimburses them for that investment; the aim is to profit from the legitimate replication of the design by an honest manufacturer who has entered into a license with the designer. Why should pirates, who took no risk, profit at the expense of the person who owns the design or their family? In your world there would be new designs because potential designers would go into other fields. Society figured that out long ago and passed legal protections for intellectual property rights because it’s good for the economy, and therefore in the interest of the greatest good for the most people.

Legitimate manufacturers don’t use child labor, they pay people a wage. You are advocating giving the work to criminal counterfeiters who exploit child and prison labor. Shame on you.

]]> By: Max http://blog.genuinedesign.com/?p=34&cpage=1#comment-196 Max Wed, 17 Jun 2009 01:52:04 +0000 http://blog.genuinedesign.com/?p=34#comment-196 This is absolute nonsense. If chair A and chair B have the same amount of workmanship, quality of materials, seeming, and look, then chair A is equal to chair B, even if chair A is made by people in Europe for above minimum wage, and chair B is made my nearly starving children in Chinese sweatshops. And, really, is it all that ethical to take work away from those children when they clearly need that small amount of pay to survive? I am not pro child-labor, but taking away their jobs won't fix their situation. Ethics should be held separate from design; when mixed they only produce two things: feel good bullshit and propaganda. This is absolute nonsense. If chair A and chair B have the same amount of workmanship, quality of materials, seeming, and look, then chair A is equal to chair B, even if chair A is made by people in Europe for above minimum wage, and chair B is made my nearly starving children in Chinese sweatshops. And, really, is it all that ethical to take work away from those children when they clearly need that small amount of pay to survive? I am not pro child-labor, but taking away their jobs won’t fix their situation.

Ethics should be held separate from design; when mixed they only produce two things: feel good bullshit and propaganda.

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