Designs for The Other 90%
This is one of the topics I do not enjoy very much. It’s not really because of what happens but it’s because it is hard to change the industry to help the people that need this. There are certain factors that this reading brought to my mind. The complication to design for the poor is really not the problem. Companies are able to do it but if that think about it closely, from whom would they receive the most profit from? At this moment, companies are fighting and battling to try and win over the competition. Understood, many people cannot afford the luxuries that companies are only providing today. Exquisite and uniquely designed furniture, imported luxury cars, large houses with modern styling, but then you wonder, what’s there from the rest of us? There is not much you can do for the rest. It’s not really the problem to design cheap in order to sell cheap. It’s the engineering it takes to manufacture these products. When companies have to pay for employees to draw and design the layouts, engineers to working on the mechanics, sales associates to find the market, and basically everyone keeping the industry alive, it costs a lot of money. Not only that, the machinery costs millions to make these products go in a production line. Then the packaging costs money, materials, accessories, and everything included that the customer will receive, who will be gaining the profit in the end?
Agriculture in India
The main problem that India is facing, as of now, is globalization. The World Trade Organization is the organization that deals with all the rules of trade between different nations, putting out a standard for which import and exports will be handled. Corporations are slowly taking over India’s farm land, leaving the peasant farmers with virtually nothing. From their stand point, it is a life-threatening problem for which they can no longer provide themselves, families, or a simple living. Some have committed suicide due to the “agricultural takeover”. Organic farms are lowered and the use of pesticides increase. Some foods have moved to general “export first” instead of “food first” mainly because the market’s goal is one thing: money. People will pay more to have the food imported to their nation. Shrimp has become one of these and is still damaging India as well. It requires seawater to be on the coast of india, which results in reducing water supplies for the area and polluting the sea. The destruction it is causing is increased every time people buy imported shrimp from india. Mangroves, WAter, Agriculture, and Fisheries are all being harmed in this process.
This is one of the topics I do not enjoy very much. It’s not really because of what happens but it’s because it is hard to change the industry to help the people that need this. There are certain factors that this reading brought to my mind. The complication to design for the poor is really not the problem. Companies are able to do it but if that think about it closely, from whom would they receive the most profit from? At this moment, companies are fighting and battling to try and win over the competition. Understood, many people cannot afford the luxuries that companies are only providing today. Exquisite and uniquely designed furniture, imported luxury cars, large houses with modern styling, but then you wonder, what’s there from the rest of us? There is not much you can do for the rest. It’s not really the problem to design cheap in order to sell cheap. It’s the engineering it takes to manufacture these products. When companies have to pay for employees to draw and design the layouts, engineers to working on the mechanics, sales associates to find the market, and basically everyone keeping the industry alive, it costs a lot of money. Not only that, the machinery costs millions to make these products go in a production line. Then the packaging costs money, materials, accessories, and everything included that the customer will receive, who will be gaining the profit in the end?
Agriculture in India
The main problem that India is facing, as of now, is globalization. The World Trade Organization is the organization that deals with all the rules of trade between different nations, putting out a standard for which import and exports will be handled. Corporations are slowly taking over India’s farm land, leaving the peasant farmers with virtually nothing. From their stand point, it is a life-threatening problem for which they can no longer provide themselves, families, or a simple living. Some have committed suicide due to the “agricultural takeover”. Organic farms are lowered and the use of pesticides increase. Some foods have moved to general “export first” instead of “food first” mainly because the market’s goal is one thing: money. People will pay more to have the food imported to their nation. Shrimp has become one of these and is still damaging India as well. It requires seawater to be on the coast of india, which results in reducing water supplies for the area and polluting the sea. The destruction it is causing is increased every time people buy imported shrimp from india. Mangroves, WAter, Agriculture, and Fisheries are all being harmed in this process.
