Designers are often total idealists who have to justify themselves by ignoring reality in order to practice their craft with a clear conscious. I went to architecture school for a bit, so I know from exp. The education they get is equal to lawyers or engineers, yet the impact most design has in a consumer culture is negative. There are a select few design firms that DO have a positive influence, yet there are only so many of these jobs to go around, as the end product of their design is always more expensive and therefore doesn't appeal to the masses and have a giant impact. The only company I can think of with relatively good design is Apple, yet they too are ethically impaired, with the suicide epidemic at the huge city sized factory in China recently.
Lol at one designer in the film, "we were totally middle class, my parents were 2 doctors, and our design taste wasn't elite". Designer often are ideologues who fail to comprehend the downsides of their chosen profession.Compare this to a surgeon, if a surgeon screws up , HE KnOWS IT! Idea worker like designers always underestimate their mistakes, for example: Brutalism, Bauhuas concrete problems, Bauhaus hiding under rationality, etc.
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