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When the New York City Board of Fractured Atlas said that Andersen Design’s life-long purpose is “for the money”, Andersen Design was not alone as a victim of groundless assertions by corporate bureaucrats and overlords, granting no avenue of appeal. It’s happening everywhere that spaces are ruled by the large and the algorithms.

The board is mined from the heights of the non-profit world. This is the creative economy writ large, with its own version of Creative Economy Newspeak, eliminating words by removing them from context and redefining their meaning.

Newspeak was a language favored by the minions of Big Brother and, in Orwell's words, "designed to diminish the range of thought." Miriam Webster Dictionary

To define production as “being only in it for the money” certainly does limit the range of thought. When my parents created Andersen Design with the purpose of creating a handcrafted product affordable to the middle classes, they were not limiting the range…