re: #301 filetandrelease

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It is not an assumption. It is simple. Business survives on profit, government on taxes.

And that profit can be profit from meaningless products, or from actually destructive products. You can make a lot of money selling cigarettes, and the government can spend a lot of money researching ways to cure cancer, but only one of those activities is actually producing something meaningful.

That a good or service is an economic success says nothing about whether that good or service is actually needed, useful, or sustainable.

Here’s a book recommendation for those wanting to get deeper into this topic:

Cradle to Cradle

I’m hoping this coming century is the one where we start to really engage with design. I think that we’re intellectually poised for it— I hope, because damn, we really need it.