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I was confronted the other day by this image of a prosthetic seat for a broken chair. It made me think about all the broken things I’d tossed out or seen tossed out over the years and what a waste that was. Waste is a real concern of mine lately, both from a design ethics standpoint and an economic one.
Most consumer goods today are so cheap that repairing them hardly seems worth it. Things move so fast that there is inevitably something new and improved to replace it. The new thing is bound to be cheaply made, as well. The cycle repeats itself.
In a way, I suppose, these broken things help fuel the economic engine. People keep buying replacements and designers keep making them. This is, of course, terrible because it’s a tremendous waste of resources.
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