This is totally misguided. The simple facts are that 'great design' is not the single factor in success or failure of any kind of product, and that not all things created through charities are failures.
Of course if you want to peddle the opposite then you can support your weak position by selecting examples from the real world underpinning it but these are just instances and not generalizations. You could just as easy argue the opposite using different examples (capitalism is the root of all evil and nonprofits are the way forward).
Neither of these positions is supported by all the data available, so like in many other cases the situation is more complex than what you can easily catch in a soundbite and a blogpost.
The monkey video embedded makes a completely different point than the one that the author wants to extract from it: that two monkeys doing the same work side-by-side expect equal pay. It has nothing to do with 'products' or 'design'.
I get the dig at the prosthetic arm (the writer is co-founder of http://madebybump.org/#global), but since that's a non-profit I have no idea why the capitalism angle is emphasized so much.
"""Have you ever wondered about how a homeless person on the side of the street and the leader of the free world consume the same fizzy soda drink just to have a fleeting moment of happiness?"""
If your happiness comes from drinking cola then you have other problems.
Of course if you want to peddle the opposite then you can support your weak position by selecting examples from the real world underpinning it but these are just instances and not generalizations. You could just as easy argue the opposite using different examples (capitalism is the root of all evil and nonprofits are the way forward).
Neither of these positions is supported by all the data available, so like in many other cases the situation is more complex than what you can easily catch in a soundbite and a blogpost.
The monkey video embedded makes a completely different point than the one that the author wants to extract from it: that two monkeys doing the same work side-by-side expect equal pay. It has nothing to do with 'products' or 'design'.
I get the dig at the prosthetic arm (the writer is co-founder of http://madebybump.org/#global), but since that's a non-profit I have no idea why the capitalism angle is emphasized so much.
"""Have you ever wondered about how a homeless person on the side of the street and the leader of the free world consume the same fizzy soda drink just to have a fleeting moment of happiness?"""
If your happiness comes from drinking cola then you have other problems.
Maybe this is some kind of elaborate satire?