Paige Prieto’s Reviews > Fixation: How to Have Stuff without Breaking the Planet > Status Update

…”today, however, when a manufacturer might be paid three dollars per hour to make a coffee machine in India or China, when raw materials and fuel for shipping are cheap, and a fixer in the States requires at least minimum wage, and hopefully more, it’s easy to see how making cheap stuff becomes the dominant model.”

“As Dieter Rams outlined in the 1970s, ‘good design is honest,’ ‘long-lasting,’ and ‘environmentally friendly.’”

“…we are all onions. If you keep peeling off our layers you find — absolutely nothing left. There is no true inner self… The clothes were not superficial, they actually were what made us what we think we are.”