This is probably the worst of these kind of illustrations that I have seen. Notably the final panel is not the removal of systemic barriers but rather a use of resources to balance out disadvantage so that “equal” remedies are now a solution. There are problems in every panel though.
It’s kinda hard to illustrate them taking turns picking the fruit and equitably sharing what they pick each time. What happens if a third person shows up. Or if one of these people is selling the apples for export to a prosperous country and the other is feeding the destitute in their village.
But you don’t need to know the co-ordinates of perfection to know which direction is better.
Those pickers aren’t OSHA compliant smdh 😞
Waits patiently for the people shouting those kids should grow their own tree, just like the one about the boxes
If anyone’s bothered by the horrendous image quality, the best source of each panel I could find is this page from UKFIET’s 2021 materials. The credit in the lower-right indicates someone by the handle @lunchbreath built it for John Maeda’s Design In Tech Report 2019, but I can’t seem to get his site working to a point where I can view the report itself.
Edit: Better source.
The thing that gets people up in arms is that you can’t see the shape of tree nearly as easily* as you can see the height of the ladders, so the “equality” solution may just look like giving an advantage to your favorite group.
*Yes, we have ways to see the shape of the tree, but that’s through studies and trusting experts, whereas you can see the height of the ladders plainly.