IS THE UNIVERSAL,
SELF-ESTABLISHED
VALUE OF ALL THINGS.

MONEY

IT HAS, THEREFORE,

ROBBED

T
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  E

W
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  O
   L
    E

	WORLD–

BOTH THE WORLD

OF
 MEN
  AND
   NATURE–

OF ITS
SPECIFIC VALUE.

IS THE ESTRANGED ESSENCE OF
MAN’S WORK AND
MAN’S EXISTENCE,

MONEY

AND THIS ALIEN
ESSENCE DOMINATES,

HIM AS HE

IT.

W O R S H I P S

KARL MARX

*

NEVER FORGET THAT WORK IS THE STORY WE TELL OURSELVES ABOUT MONEY.

EULA BISS

LET US NEVER CEASE
FROM THINKING-

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WHAT IS THIS
"CIVILISATION"
IN WHICH WE
FIND OURSELVES?
WHAT ARE THESE
CEREMONIES
AND WHY SHOULD
WE TAKE PART IN THEM?
WHAT ARE THESE
PROFESSIONS AND
WHY SHOULD WE
MAKE MONEY OUT OF THEM?
WHERE IN SHORT
IS IT LEADING US,
THE PROCESSION
OF THE SONS OF
EDUCATED MEN?

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VIRGINA WOOLF

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Unlike most bourgeois theorists, Marx realized that what capitalism claims to be and what it actually is are two different things. What is unique about capitalism is the systematic expropriation of labor for the sole purpose of accumulation. Capital annexes living labor in order to accumulate more capital. The ultimate purpose of work is not to perform services for consumers or sustain life and society, but to make more and more money for the investor irrespective of the human and environmental costs.

MICHAEL PARENTI

WE SELDOM CONSIDER

HOW MUCH

O
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WE    BARELY

WANT,
	SELDOM
		NEED,

BUY ONLY
BECAUSE
IT WAS PUT

BEFORE US...

FERENC MATE
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IN A CONSUMER SOCIETY, CONTENTMENT IS A RADICAL PROPOSITION. RECOGNIZING ABUNDANCE RATHER THAN
SCARCITY UNDERMINES AN ECONOMY THAT THRIVES BY CREATING UNMET DESIRES.
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$.

CONCENTRATION
			OF
			WEALTH
			YIELDS
CONCENTRATION
			OF
			POLITICAL 							POWER.
            AND
CONCENTRATION		
			OF 
			POLITICAL
			POWER 
			
			GIVES 
			RISE 
			TO
			LEGISLATION
			THAT 
			INCREASES
	        AND 
			ACCELERATES
            THE
			CYCLE.

NOAM CHOMSKY

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2,000
OF THE RICHEST PEOPLE
HAVE MORE TOGETHER
THAN THE BOTTOM
3,500,000,000
 
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DEEPLY ASHAMED OF.



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RICHARD D. WOLFF


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IT'S 

TO KEEP 2.3 MILLION PEOPLE IN PRISON.

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JOSEPH E. STIGLITZ

2-7-22

ONLY PRISONERS HAVE TIME TO READ, AND IF YOU WANT TO ENGAGE 
IN A TWENTY-YEAR LONG RESEARCH PROJECT FUNDED BY THE STATE, YOU WILL HAVE TO
K
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TOTALTOTAL

MARK FISHER

THANK YOU
FOR SHOPPING
PLEASE COME AGAIN

WELCOME

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WE HAVE DELUDED OURSELVES INTO BELIEVING THE MYTH THAT CAPITALISM GREW AND PROSPERED OUT OF THE PROTESTANT ETHIC OF HARD WORK AND SACRIFICES. CAPITALISM WAS BUILT ON THE EXPLOITATION OF BLACK SLAVES AND CONTINUES TO THRIVE ON 
THE EXPLOITATION OF THE POOR, BOTH BLACK AND WHITE, BOTH HERE AND ABROAD.

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MARTIN LUTHER
KING, JR.

THANK YOU

02112022

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Not talking about money is a tool of class war.

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Molly Crabapple

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I THINK THE REASON 		MOST PEOPLE SEE
 
TIME AS MONEY 
IS NOT THAT 			    THEY WANT TO, 
BUT THAT 
THEY HAVE TO.
.

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JENNY					ODELL

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THE 
LIFETIME 
COST

OF RAISING 
A CHILD
IN THE USA
BORN IN 2022 
COULD BE 
ESTIMATED AT

$272,049.

THOSE NUMBERS DON'T INCLUDE 
THE ADDITIONAL COST OF 
SENDING A CHILD TO COLLEGE.
TIM PARKER

101

AS A THERAPIST I CAN SAY 
CONFIDENTLY THAT WHILE 
THERAPY IS HELPFUL, 
WHAT MOST PEOPLE REALLY 
NEED IS MONEY.   


CAITIE HANNAN

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Nearly 6 in 10 
Americans don't 
have enough 
savings to cover 
a $500 or $1,000 
unplanned expense.

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THERE SEEMS A GENERAL RULE THAT, THE MORE OBVIOUSLY ONE’S WORK BENEFITS OTHER PEOPLE, 
 .
THE LESS ONE IS LIKELY TO BE PAID FOR IT.
.

DAVID GRAEBER


A NEW FIGURE OF THE 
POOR IS EMERGING,
 

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WHICH INCLUDES NOT ONLY

_____________________________

*THE UNEMPLOYED 
	AND 
*THE PRECARIOUS WORKERS
	WITH IRREGULAR, 
	PART-TIME WORK, 
	BUT ALSO 
*THE STABLE WAGED WORKERS
 	AND 
*THE IMPOVERISHED STRATA 
	OF THE SO-CALLED 
	MIDDLE CLASS. 

_____________________________

MICHAEL HARDT

TO SAY THAT
WE WANT,
WAGES FOR HOUSEWORK 

$

$

$

THAT CAPITAL 
HAS MADE AND MAKES MONEY

IS TO EXPOSE
THE FACT
THAT HOUSEWORK

IS ALREADY
MONEY
FOR CAPITAL,

$

$

OUT OF 
OUR COOKING,

SMILING, 
FUCKING. 

SILVIA FEDERICI

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ORDER 4738902		TAKE OUT

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THE PRINCIPAL HORROR OF ANY SYSTEM WHICH DEFINES THE GOOD 
IN TERMS OF PROFIT RATHER THAN IN TERMS OF HUMAN NEED,

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OR WHICH DEFINES HUMAN 
NEED TO THE EXCLUSION 
OF THE PSYCHIC AND EMOTIONAL 
COMPONENTS OF THAT NEED - 
THE PRINCIPAL HORROR OF SUCH 
A SYSTEM IS THAT IT ROBS 
OUR WORK OF ITS EROTIC VALUE, 
ITS EROTIC POWER AND LIFE 
APPEAL AND FULFILLMENT. 

____________________________________

SUCH A SYSTEM REDUCES WORK 
TO A TRAVESTY OF NECESSITIES, 
A DUTY BY WHICH WE EARN 
BREAD OR OBLIVION FOR OURSELVES 
AND THOSE WE LOVE.

____________________________________

AUDRE LORDE

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LIES IN GOING 
				WITH

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BEN DAVIS

IN SOME WAYS, THE GREAT DANGER FOR THIS COMMODIFIED UNIVERSE IS OUR BOREDOM WITH IT
... 

THERE IS THIS SORT 
OF DIALECTIC THAT 
YOU COULD TEASE OUT, 
THAT EVEN IN THIS OVERDEVELOPED 
LATE-CAPITALIST WORLD, 
THAT BOREDOM WAS STILL 
THIS KIND OF 
CRITICAL ENERGY 
THAT YOU COULD 
WORK ON AND TRY 
TO THEORIZE 
AND THEN ACT ON, 
TO FIND OTHER KINDS 
OF BELONGING, 
OTHER KINDS OF DESIRE, 
OTHER KINDS OF LIFE.

MCKENZIE WARK

$

    R A
  E     T 
 N       I
  E     O
   G   N

THE BEST MINDS

O
 F 
  
   M
    Y

ARE THINKING ABOUT
HOW 
TO MAKE

P
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  O
   P
    L
     E

C
 L
  I
   C
    K 
      A
       D
        S.

JEFF HAMMERBACHER

THERE'S STILL
A LOT OF MONEY 
 IN THE ARTS ECONOMY, 
IT JUST ISN'T 
GOING TO ARTISTS.

SILICON VALLEY, IN GENERAL, AND 
THE TECH GIANTS IN PARTICULAR, 
ABOVE ALL 
GOOGLE, FACEBOOK, AND AMAZON,
HAVE ENGINEERED
A VAST AND ONGOING

TRANSFER OF WEALTH

FROM CREATORS TO DISTRIBUTORS.
FROM ARTISTS TO THEMSELVES. 

WILLIAM DERESIEWICZ

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   U M E
 S      R  SOCIETY
N
 O
  C

IN A 
 

THERE ARE 
INEVITABLY

TWO KINDS OF  SLAVES: 

THE 
PRISONERS 
OF 
ADDICTION 

AND

THE
PRISONERS 
OF
ENVY.

_____________________________

IVAN ILLICH

THERE ARE NOW VERY FEW SIGNIFICANT INTERLUDES OF HUMAN EXISTENCE 
(WITH THE COLOSSAL EXCEPTION OF SLEEP) 
THAT HAVE NOT BEEN PENETRATED AND TAKEN OVER AS WORK TIME, CONSUMPTION TIME, OR MARKETING TIME.

JONATHAN CRARY

HEALTH 

under capitalism 
is an impossibility.

Under capitalism, 
to attain

HEALTH 

you must work, 
you must be 
productive and normative, 
and only then 
are you 
entitled to the

HEALTH 

you can buy. 

ADLER-BOLTON AND VIERKANT

ONCE CONSTITUTED,

CAPITAL		CAPITAL

CAPITAL	CAPITAL	

CAPITAL		CAPITAL

REPRODUCES 
		ITSELF FASTER

CAPITAL		CAPITAL

CAPITAL		CAPITAL

CAPITAL		CAPITAL

CAPITAL		CAPITAL

 
THAN OUTPUT INCREASES. 

CAPITAL		CAPITAL

THE PAST DEVOURS

THE FUTURE.

THOMAS PIKETTY


WELCOME

TOTAL

OF COURSE, MILLENNIALS ARE VERY FAMILIAR WITH BEING SOLD ON THE IDEA OF EXPERIENCES GIVEN THE FACT THAT WE ARE THE MOST INDEBTED GENERATION IN HISTORY. AFTER ALL, THE ONLY THINGS 
WE OWN ARE EXPERIENCES.
BRAD TROEMEL

11/05/22
15:12:40

MOST OLDER
 AMERICANS,

IN CONTRAST, 

STILL DO 
 NOT SEEM
  TO REALIZE

HOW UNFAIR
 THEIR SOCIETY 
  HAS BECOME 
   OVER THE LAST 
    GENERATION
 

UNLESS THEY 
 HAVE BECOME
  VICTIMS OF
   IT THEMSELVES.

CHARLES H. FERGUSON

HOW MUCH A DOLLAR REALLY COST? 

________________________________

THE QUESTION 
				
									IS 				
DETRIMENTAL,
							PARALYZIN' 
						
										MY 						THOUGHTS

________________________________

KENDRICK LAMAR

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RETAIN FOR YOUR RECORDS


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	TO NOT NEED MONEY 
							SO AS
	TO BE ABLE TO WRITE ALL THE TIME
	TO NOT HAVE TO PAY RENT, 
		CON ED OR TELEPHONE BILLS
	TO FORGET PARENTS' AND
		UNCLE'S EARLY DEATHS 
						   	SO AS
	TO BE FREE OF EXPECTING CARE; 	FAILURE
	TO LOVE OBJECTS
	TO FIND THEM VALUABLE IN ANY WAY;  	FAILURE

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BERNADETTE MAYER

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FREE 
YOUR MIND 

OF 
THE
IDEA OF
 DESERVING,
OF THE IDEA
OF EARNING,AND 
YOU WILL BEGIN
TO BE ABLE TO

T		H		I		N	 K.

URSULA K. LE GUIN

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NOTE

For the past year, I’ve felt so paralyzed by my economic prospects that I’ve been research.ing how people are able to survive. Where do I find myself in this economy as an artist? Will I ever be able to buy a house? Will I ever be able to retire? What I’ve found is that the economy is not just inadequate for artists, it is inadequate for nearly everyone. Growing in.equality is a deliberate act, cultivated over time, and so pervasive it is hard to see. My hope in sharing these grim facts is that peo.ple will see the commonality in our struggles, and question the machinery of our systems.  

In Solidarity,
Sarah 

sarahlutkenhaus.com

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