ID Badge
Type: component
PROBLEM
SOLUTION
A laminated credential clipped to the body that communicates authorization, identity, and approximate rank within the organizational caste system. The ID Badge is the Medal of Honor of the corporate theater — coveted by those without one, taken for granted by those with one, and immediately weaponized by those with a colored stripe that means something the new hires have not yet decoded. Security is achieved by the badge existing. Whether the badge belongs to the person wearing it is a secondary concern the system has chosen not to prioritize. It can be lost, stolen, cloned, tailgated around, left on the roof of a car, or found in a parking lot and used for three weeks before anyone notices. Many desire it. Few carry it. The photo on it looks like no one.