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cadfaelReading the Sunday papers and reading the news on CNN's website I was struck by a recurring thought I 've had since I was a kid prowling the streets of Brooklyn, New York.
We produce a wide range of goods and services in this country and in the industrialized world. We have access to the finest minds on the planet. I am mystified, for example, that we cannot produce a subway system in NYC that does not make everyone deaf (over time) caused by the screeching of metal on metal. Or why we allow automobiles and trucks to produce and release so much pollution into the atmosphere.
Put concisely, why don't we design products in a manner that helps the world population live more in harmony with nature. Please don't tell me its the profit motive of business executive like the asshat VP currently in office. That is too easy an answer.
I know that my blood plasma has not yet been fully replaced by coffee yet, so I haven't expressed this so well. But, I would be willing to contact my elected representatives and ask them THE question if we could articulate it properly.
Please have at it, whatcha think?
We produce a wide range of goods and services in this country and in the industrialized world. We have access to the finest minds on the planet. I am mystified, for example, that we cannot produce a subway system in NYC that does not make everyone deaf (over time) caused by the screeching of metal on metal. Or why we allow automobiles and trucks to produce and release so much pollution into the atmosphere.
Put concisely, why don't we design products in a manner that helps the world population live more in harmony with nature. Please don't tell me its the profit motive of business executive like the asshat VP currently in office. That is too easy an answer.
I know that my blood plasma has not yet been fully replaced by coffee yet, so I haven't expressed this so well. But, I would be willing to contact my elected representatives and ask them THE question if we could articulate it properly.
Please have at it, whatcha think?
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Uh, honey, that's not their job
Date: 2004-11-14 07:28 am (UTC)Our elected representatives don't design products. They sometimes buy them and get other people to install them. They don't design anything concrete.
If you're concerned about product design you would have to address your question to the private industries that design the products.
Now, if you're talking standards, you might have a leg to stand on. But, as you, standardization is not a governmet function here in the USA. The standardization process is driven, to a large extent, by the interests of private industries that stand to profit as a result of any published standards. There are other interests involved, of course. But the greens aren't driving the bus.
It's all about the free market, whether you like it or not.