Ha! It’s a super popular wealthy, Western, intellectual stance to be opposed to all aspects of globalization. It’s so easy to just sit there and say that the spread of corporate power is bad, the indigenous culture is good, and the monobloc is an example of this cheap throwaway culture that’s destroying the local culture. But I’ve spent a good chunk of my professional life in the developing world and a lot of people there are really excited about having access to the material culture that people in the West have. I just think it’s insanely paternalistic to just sit there and say that poor people can’t have monobloc chairs because it’s bad for their culture. I think there are aspects of that which are probably true. It’s probably quite bad for local furniture businesses when the monobloc takes hold. But I think this sort of notion that this is a virus and it should be fought fails to recognize that people in the developing world have a choice as to what they want to spend their resources on. I think it’s condescending to the extreme. It’s not that Walmart is churning these things out—it’s actually people in the developing world making these. It doesn’t feel like an obliteration of culture. It feels like poor people getting the chance to buy goods as representation of their aspirations.