Comment Re:Cultural Icon (Score 1) 583
> On the subject of red staplers, why has the post WWII workplace insisted on mono-color conformity?
I'm a little out of my league here but I believe there was a movement during early-mid last century in this direction. It was felt that uniformity/conformity was more democratic and free of class distinctions. That's why you'll see rows and rows of houses that look identical. (There's a mass-production thing going on there too, but that's a different story.)
You could be richer or poorer than your neighbor but it wouldn't matter because you lived in the same place.
I'm a little out of my league here but I believe there was a movement during early-mid last century in this direction. It was felt that uniformity/conformity was more democratic and free of class distinctions. That's why you'll see rows and rows of houses that look identical. (There's a mass-production thing going on there too, but that's a different story.)
You could be richer or poorer than your neighbor but it wouldn't matter because you lived in the same place.
