Free Ride
850.00
0 in stock
Medium: Acrylic on plywood
Year: 2023
Size: 60 (w) x 42 (h) x 8 (d) cm | 23.6 (w) x 16.5 (h) x 3.1 (d) in
Signed
"Whilst the media celebrates the achievements of the growing number of billionaires, shouldn't the rest of us be questioning how they got so rich?"
BACKGROUND STORY
Who wants to be a billionaire?
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez famously once said ‘you don’t make a billion dollars, you take a billion dollars’. It would take someone on a million-dollar salary a thousand years to make their first billion (or 20,000 years to make 200 billion). Nobody could ever earn enough money in their lifetime to become a billionaire.
Whilst the media celebrates their achievements, shouldn’t the rest of us be questioning how these people got so rich? For every billionaire in our world; there are millions of people going without.
Free ride is an expression of the exploitation of workers by billionaires.