About Molly:
Molly Crabapple is an artist and writer based in New York. She is the author of two books, Drawing Blood and Brothers of the Gun (with Marwan Hisham), which was long-listed for a National Book Award in 2018. Her reportage is the 2022 winner of the Bernhart Labor Journalism Award, and has been published in The New York Times, New York Review of Books, The Paris Review, Vanity Fair, The Guardian, Rolling Stone, The New Yorker and elsewhere. Her art is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art. Her animations have been nominated for three Emmys and won an Edward R. Murrow Award.
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But from all your commercial activities, it sure seems like you are trying very, very hard to be in the 1%…or at least the top 10%.
(And a tip of the hat to your capitalistic, entrepreneurial and PR spirit!)
I certainly am! I am a capitalist thing, but that doesn’t mean I’m down with lobbyists or banks giving bonuses out of their bailout money, or the outright fraud that caused the financial crisis. I don’t think the point of OWS is to demonize rich people, but rather to point out things that are fundementally unjust and unsustainable
If you notice, I got a mouse-lady in a sharp business suit.
But from all your commercial activities, it sure seems like you are trying very, very hard to be in the 1%…or at least the top 10%.
(And a tip of the hat to your capitalistic, entrepreneurial and PR spirit!)
I certainly am! I am a capitalist thing, but that doesn’t mean I’m down with lobbyists or banks giving bonuses out of their bailout money, or the outright fraud that caused the financial crisis. I don’t think the point of OWS is to demonize rich people, but rather to point out things that are fundementally unjust and unsustainable
If you notice, I got a mouse-lady in a sharp business suit.
Exactly. Entrepreneurial spirit and initiative cannot be equated with anti-capitalistic fraud and theft at the highest levels of our banking aka lobbying aka governmental system.
To assume so otherwise is oversimplification and a false equivalency.
Exactly. Entrepreneurial spirit and initiative cannot be equated with anti-capitalistic fraud and theft at the highest levels of our banking aka lobbying aka governmental system.
To assume so otherwise is oversimplification and a false equivalency.
But a big part of OWS is that the 1% have too much money and that it should be taken from them via taxation (and other means) and the wealth of the rich 1% (anyone making over $350,000) should be redistributed to others….correct?
If one becomes part of the 1% through their smarts, hard work , entrepreneurial spirit and initiative they are lumped in as the “enemy” and are a target.
And most union guys make more than lots of us hard-working, up and coming entrepreneurs struggling to work around/with many of the rules the the union lobbyists set up through the government.
But a big part of OWS is that the 1% have too much money and that it should be taken from them via taxation (and other means) and the wealth of the rich 1% (anyone making over $350,000) should be redistributed to others….correct?
If one becomes part of the 1% through their smarts, hard work , entrepreneurial spirit and initiative they are lumped in as the “enemy” and are a target.
And most union guys make more than lots of us hard-working, up and coming entrepreneurs struggling to work around/with many of the rules the the union lobbyists set up through the government.
You are my new hero Molly…wish I were
able to attend one of your Dr. Sketchy’s Anti Art School sessions! (I live near Key West). But I am following all of your projects, and support your views. Keep it up girl!
You are my new hero Molly…wish I were
able to attend one of your Dr. Sketchy’s Anti Art School sessions! (I live near Key West). But I am following all of your projects, and support your views. Keep it up girl!
@Beth Thompson
If an independent artist can make the top 1%, or even top 10%, now that’s a world worth fighting for.
@Beth Thompson
If an independent artist can make the top 1%, or even top 10%, now that’s a world worth fighting for.