As the song goes, “More, more more. How do you like it, how do you like?”
Aparently, we only truly like it to a point–but we’re hooked, so we can’t stop even when it becomes bad for us.
As a follow up to my question about accelerating consumption verus enriching meaning, here’s a story from IHT about the negative side effects of an overly materialistic lifestyle. Apparently there are limits (who knew?).
So this raises the question for design again: how do we balance our client obligation to help them make more money with our obligation as good people to do no harm when these two obligations find themselves at odds?
Maybe designers need an equivalent of the Hippocratic Oath? The Democritic Oath? 🙂
I like Democritus’s “The good things of life are produced by learning with hard work; the bad are reaped of their own accord, without hard work.” It sort of relates to my experience with music–plus he condensed my entire post into one sentence.
Who are you to judge how much success is “too much” for your client?
Interesting question given that I made no judgements. I merely pointed to an IHT article and then posed a question about how it relates to our work as designers. If you disagree with the article, well that’s a matter you should take up with its authors, not me.
Its unfortunate that there isn’t a reading comprehension test before people are allowed to post anything online. Maybe someday.