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It's okay to troll designers who would have truck with unethical companies. Why?

Because, in the end, it is the designers who polish a product and advertise any product/ideal that these unethical companies hold.

Take Coca-Cola, for example:
Here we have a company that deprives thousands of indians of water due to their heavy water mining operations. When the Indians came forward to ask for some water, which causes misery to thousands of indians in outlying villages because their water pumps run dry. Coca-Cola has never thought it necessary to remunerate these indians with any of the water it takes.

In Columbia, Coca-Cola subcontracts to factories who shoot trade unionists:

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Big Spaceship and other design companies that design for them shouldn't be designing for them. Companies only change their ethics when their product is in danger of not selling and while said products are advertised/designed/marketed by we - the designers - and the product sells well, Coca-Cola will continue to mine water at the expense of Indian needs and turn a blind eye to the goings on in Columbia because people will continue to buy their products.

We, as designers, are vested with a great responsibility to the people of the world to ensure that the companies and products we design for are not harming any other human being in any other way.

It's easy to turn a blind eye to the suffering of people who live tens of thousands of miles away and whom you will never meet, but it is an ignorant point of view. We are all human beings with feelings and needs and if there is one thing I have learned is that everyone needs someone sometimes.

We are all people. On the same planet. The only planet we'll get.
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~Quantgr Jul 7, 2010
Unfortunately graphic designers is a part of advertising<overconsumption<capitalism=unethical economy system...
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~JamesRandom Jul 7, 2010
It doesn't, however, HAVE to be that way.
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~Quantgr Jul 7, 2010
I totally agree... WE have to change that ;)
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~FAITHLESS-JES Jul 7, 2010
thanks for that information.
what if you still like cola though?
which is the most ethical cola company or are they all as bad as each other?
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~JamesRandom Jul 7, 2010
It's really not about coca-cola at all. It was just an example. The point of the deviation is, well, in red and white, really.
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=Rozrr Jul 7, 2010   Digital Artist
They take the water and expect them to buy coca cola. Did you know that the ceffeine they take from decaffeinated tea and coffee is added to coke and doctor pepper?
The CC company did the same in Kerala in India. Diet coke also contains masses of aspartame as well as the caffeine.

They get kids addicted to coke in 3rd world countries so it will be easier to get them addicted to whatever comes along later.

One day I was in Northampton centre and there was group of people in coke a cola tshirts giving the stuff away. They had a mike. I went up to them and asked them if they knew what they were doing. All they were concerned about was that they were making money...

Ban KILLER COKE
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