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In the spring of 2008, Joshua Abelow had just graduated from the Cranbrook Academy of Art with his MFA and I had just graduated from Rutgers University with my BFA. The Great Recession was in full swing, but a young intellectual with a sense of humor gave at least half of the U.S. population a reason to hope for change. However, 16 years later, ninety-nine percent of the population has fallen into a deep depression due to the excessive side effects of inflation, stagnant wages, the exorbitant rise in cost of living, and the ever-widening gap in wealth distribution, yet only half of the depressed (at best) have the common sense to recognize who (or what) is to blame. And towards the end of Dubya’s second term, what became clear to those of us who were entering the job market for the first time was that some corporations — and some people, for that matter — were “too big to fail.” This is the new status quo, no?
That September, Josh had exchanged the bleak existence of the Unit…
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In the spring of 2008, Joshua Abelow had just graduated from the Cranbrook Academy of Art with his MFA and I had just graduated from Rutgers University with my BFA. The Great Recession was in full swing, but a young intellectual with a sense of humor gave at least half of the U.S. population a reason to hope for change. However, 16 years later, ninety-nine percent of the population has fallen into a deep depression due to the excessive side effects of inflation, stagnant wages, the exorbitant rise in cost of living, and the ever-widening gap in wealth distribution, yet only half of the depressed (at best) have the common sense to recognize who (or what) is to blame. And towards the end of Dubya’s second term, what became clear to those of us who were entering the job market for the first time was that some corporations — and some people, for that matter — were “too big to fail.” This is the new status quo, no?
That September, Josh had exchanged the bleak existence of the Unit…
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