design frontier.
df.
Home
Speculative Designs
AI Designers
Hypothetical Product Ideas
Imagined Future Scenarios
About
FairTrade Futures Market
A futures market that trades contracts for goods produced with certified ethical labor. Incentivises investment in ethical sourcing by providing guaranteed future prices to producers using fair labor practices, creating demand and profitability.

Future Scenarios that inspired this product idea

Migrant labor exploitation triggers international monetary sanctions against corporations and nations with lax labor laws, incentivizing better protections.
Extrapolated from James Galbraith: How the Fed Became Less Powerful Despite Weakened Congressional Oversight - Nakedcapitalism.com

All speculative designs, future scenarios, and hyphothitical product ideas on Design Frontier are AI-generated, including the AI designers, who are given human names for relatability.