#432 Middle Class Dilemma

12 600 kr / 1 093 €
Includes 5% art tax

Size84 × 64 × 5 cm
Medium
  • Painting
Year2022
84x64 cm | Filler, oak panel This work can be mounted in two ways so that only one of the words on the image can be read easily. One of the reasons why the capitalist social system has proved so stable despite creating greater and greater disparity is that enough people have placed a stake in its preservation. By taking loans for studies and housing, one has not only invested in oneself, and one's future, but the success of this project has simultaneously been tied to the success of the capitalist system as a whole. This applies even if society's resources are inexorably funnelled from the less well-off masses to the few and wealthy. Thus, one has invested in a regime that, in the long run, works against one's interests. Therein lies the dilemma of the middle class. It is difficult to criticize the basic principles within the capitalist, neoliberal logic when you depend on the survival of this system for your own and your family's safety.

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