Why Some Corporate Things Are OK And Not Made To Oppress You
Adam Greenfield, of the design-centric website v-2 Organisation, has endured one-too-many rants on the evils of corporate consumer products and is telling everyone to shut the hell up.
On Ikea: "You know what? I'm done with it. If your life is mediocre, I promise you, Ingvar Kamprad didn't make it that way. You did. And if you're so desperate for your own soixante-huit moment that you can sit there with a straight face and tell me that you're being oppressed by flat-packable pine furniture with goofy pseudo-Scandinavian names, I'd advise you to spend a few days working with child slaves in the Sudan, or something."
