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It's okay to troll designers who would have truck with unethical companies. Why?

Because, in the end, it is the designers who polish a product and advertise any product/ideal that these unethical companies hold.

Take Coca-Cola, for example:
Here we have a company that deprives thousands of indians of water due to their heavy water mining operations. When the Indians came forward to ask for some water, which causes misery to thousands of indians in outlying villages because their water pumps run dry. Coca-Cola has never thought it necessary to remunerate these indians with any of the water it takes.

In Columbia, Coca-Cola subcontracts to factories who shoot trade unionists:

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Big Spaceship and other design companies that design for them shouldn't be designing for them. Companies only change their ethics when their product is in danger of not selling and while said products are advertised/designed/marketed by we - the designers - and the product sells well, Coca-Cola will continue to mine water at the expense of Indian needs and turn a blind eye to the goings on in Columbia because people will continue to buy their products.

We, as designers, are vested with a great responsibility to the people of the world to ensure that the companies and products we design for are not harming any other human being in any other way.

It's easy to turn a blind eye to the suffering of people who live tens of thousands of miles away and whom you will never meet, but it is an ignorant point of view. We are all human beings with feelings and needs and if there is one thing I have learned is that everyone needs someone sometimes.

We are all people. On the same planet. The only planet we'll get.

Description
It's okay to troll designers who would have truck with unethical companies. Why?

Because, in the end, it is the designers who polish a product and advertise any product/ideal that these unethical companies hold.

Take Coca-Cola, for example:
Here we have a company that deprives thousands of indians of water due to their heavy water mining operations. When the Indians came forward to ask for some water, which causes misery to thousands of indians in outlying villages because their water pumps run dry. Coca-Cola has never thought it necessary to remunerate these indians with any of the water it takes.

In Columbia, Coca-Cola subcontracts to factories who shoot trade unionists:

[link]

Big Spaceship and other design companies that design for them shouldn't be designing for them. Companies only change their ethics when their product is in danger of not selling and while said products are advertised/designed/marketed by we - the designers - and the product sells well, Coca-Cola will continue to mine water at the expense of Indian needs and turn a blind eye to the goings on in Columbia because people will continue to buy their products.

We, as designers, are vested with a great responsibility to the people of the world to ensure that the companies and products we design for are not harming any other human being in any other way.

It's easy to turn a blind eye to the suffering of people who live tens of thousands of miles away and whom you will never meet, but it is an ignorant point of view. We are all human beings with feelings and needs and if there is one thing I have learned is that everyone needs someone sometimes.

We are all people. On the same planet. The only planet we'll get.