I remember that one from several years ago from an NPR article that – if nothing else – held it as being something positive. My reaction and posted comment back then touched on the device’s conceptual link to the child-labor treadmills of the Industrial revolution, and the convenient ‘ease’ with which this ‘solution’ was deemed acceptable by the designer and those enabling its production (with that making me wonder if the ‘ease’ was greased by an attitude of ‘good enough for Africa’).
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