Periodically, our heated education debate ignites on the topic of grades in school.
Elsewhere, throughout the rest of our lives, rating, classification, benchmarking have become quietly omnipresent, in particular to guide our purchasing (or selling) actions.
On the internet, you have to write down everything, your hotel, your flight, your Uber driver, your restaurant, your second-hand seller, your business, your garage, your gym or your hairdresser.
It's the race for the stars.
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In stores, it's a race for labeling.
The arrows graded from green to red, with grades from A to E (sometimes up to F and G for certain assessment areas), have taken over our daily lives.
It started in the household appliances section around fifteen years ago with sheets stuck on all fridges and dishwashers to inform them of their level of energy consumption.
Since then, it has been an epidemic.
The same devices now also display their “repairability index” – be careful…
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