The Story of Stuff deals with the underpinning issues with the global economy. Unfortunately there are lots of issues, social and environmental. The story of stuff is nice and succinct and really should be seen by everyone because it really sums up what’s wrong with our economy!
Personally I would like to see a return to what I perceive the values of the 1950’s were; that is that one would still appreciate nice products, but there is not hyper-consumption, people would truly appreciate well designed and produced products and pay for them what they are worth. This would be more expensive but they would be built to last, their parts would be easily replaceable and one would appreciate that product for their lifetime, even pass it on through the generations, the product might even appreciate in value too! Also I would like to see, like most people, a large move to sustainable design.
One sobering factor about human consumption that she talked about was our constantly changing values and desire to consume which not only sustain our economy but unfortunately sustain most of the design profession.
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