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“There is so much wealth and so much misery at the same time, that it seems incredible that people can endure such class difference, and accept such a form of hunger while on the other hand, the millionaires throw away millions on stupidities.”
~ Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderón aka Frida Kahlo
~ Mexican artist, writing about New York City in the 1930s...
~ Born 6 July 1907 Coyoacán, Mexico City, Mexico
~ Died 13 July 1954 Coyoacán, Mexico City, Mexico
“There is so much wealth and so much misery at the same time, that it seems incredible that people can endure such class difference, and accept such a form of hunger while on the other hand, the millionaires throw away millions on stupidities.”
~ Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderón aka Frida Kahlo
~ Mexican artist, writing about New York City in the 1930s...
~ Born 6 July 1907 Coyoacán, Mexico City, Mexico
~ Died 13 July 1954 Coyoacán, Mexico City, Mexico
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For your information Frida did not immigrate to the USA.
“In November 1931, Frida Kahlo and her husband Diego Rivera traveled to New York for the opening of Rivera’s exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art.
The following excerpt from the book Frida in America: The Creative Awakening of a Great Artist recounts the artist’s experience in the American city.
While in New York, [Frida Kahlo] experienced the huge disparity between the wealthy and the poor.
On the one hand, in her short time in this city she’d been surrounded by millionaires, socializing in their spacious homes, partaking of food and drink served by the hired help. On the other hand, she told her mother:
“Witnessing the horrible poverty here and the millions of people who have no work, food, or home, who are cold and have no hope in this country of scumbag millionaires, who greedily grab everything, has profoundly shocked [us].”
Frida and Diego even visited a homeless shelter, where they saw people “sleep like dogs in a pen.”
The experience inspired Diego to portray this grim reality in a painting called Frozen Assets, where bodies are placed side by side as if in a morgue, hidden away beneath the cranes of industry.”
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“Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.”
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
“The darkest secret of this country, I am afraid, is that too many of its citizens imagine that they belong to a much higher civilization somewhere else.
That higher civilization doesn’t have to be another country. It can be the past instead—the United States as it was before it was spoiled by immigrants and the enfranchisement of the blacks.
This state of mind allows too many of us to lie and cheat and steal from the rest of us, to sell us junk and addictive poisons and corrupting entertainments.
What are the rest of us, after all, but sub-human aborigines?”
~ Kurt Vonnegut
~ Born November 11, 1922 Indianapolis, Indiana, U.S.
~ Died April 11, 2007 New York City, U.S.
Either way how will the “system collapse” benefit you? It seems to me that if a system is to collapse all corrupt people will be taken down and from what you claim all your sources of income are not legitimate so how on earth would that benefit you?
Now if you’re really a 19 year old packing fries and onion rings at the Burger King on Beach Street then yeah I’m sure you’re thrilled to have the system collapse.
We need a system that's based on sustainable development and meeting the needs of the majority not the wealth of the minority
Q: Why do you think poor people are poor because of their own bad choices?
A: Because you have a natural tendency; to see the behavior of others as being determined by their character – while excusing your own behavior based on circumstances...
You are convinced that the rich and the poor deserve what they get – with exceptions made, of course, mainly for yourself.
You overlook that the USA large economic advantage is deeply tainted by how it was obtained (stolen) and accumulated over the course of one historical process (Colonialism and Imperialism) that has devastated the societies and cultures of all continents...
“Poverty is not an accident. Like slavery and apartheid, it is man-made and can be removed by the actions of human beings.
Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity, it is an act of justice.”
~ Nelson Mandela
“Comradeship, dignity, amorosity, love, solidarity, fraternity, friendship, ethics: all these names stand in contrast to the commodified, monetized relations of capitalism, all describe relations developed in struggles against capitalism and which can be seen as anticipating or creating a society beyond capitalism."
- John Holloway
~ Lawyer, sociologist and philosopher
~ Born 1947 Dublin, Ireland
~ Alma mater University of Edinburgh