"[M]oney should not be a prerequisite for inhabiting beautiful environments
- we all are equally deserving and needing of beauty in our lives. Spatial or
material compromise should not be the defining feature of social housing."
- Tatiana Bilbao
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"[M]oney should not be a prerequisite for inhabiting beautiful environments - we all are equally deserving and needing of beauty in our lives. Spatial or material compromise should not be the defining feature of social housing." - Tatiana Bilbao
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Elon Musk launched a rocket seven years ago and now it’s no longer needed, so it will be crashing into the moon, leaving a crater. If you have or haven’t seen the movie “Don’t Look Up”, you’ll know that this superstar of capitalism is looking for a place for he and his cronies to inhabit when our planet can no longer exist because of the damage of capitalism. The “rocket piece”, as it’s being called, is twelve meters long, the size of a school bus, and whizzing towards the moon at 5,600 miles per hour.
Professor Jonathan McDowell of the Center for Astrophysics Harvard and Smithsonian (and we’ve all heard of Harvard, whose affiliated mention it within ten seconds of meeting) says, “It’ll be fine.” A third grader said in my poetry class today that it’s illegal to give homeless people money.
No it’s not, said the other kids. Yes it is, he insisted. They’re rich and they’re just pretending to be poor. It's not illegal, I said, though maybe what you're saying is that you don't know who you can trust when they tell you something? No, it's illegal. Really, I didn't know that, I said as if I were genuinely curious. Who said that? My dad told me, he said proudly. Then I said, as if in afterthought, How many rich people do you think sit on the street in the cold and ask for money? One, he said. |
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