Eternal Growth
Acrylics and mixed media
100 x 100 cm
2021
Inspiration: Nasdaq's 5 year growth curve.
We live in a society and financial institution that are built on the expectation for constant growth. The more expensive things we own the more successful we are, the faster a country's GCP grows the better it’s doing and as long as the companies keep making more money each year they are successful. The entire Western economical system is built on the assumption that growth can be endless. This hunger for more, the faster the better, has resulted our environment to be in an unbearable state and causes people's mental and physical state to break at a frightening pace. The system has advanced fast but it has also done a disservice to itself and we expect technology to fix a big part of the problem - which, for some part, it probably will. Seeing how increasingly distortedly wealth is distributing across the world, I don't think anyone would agree that the situation is fair - or the best way to go about life. There is no quick fix as the problems we are facing are structural. A sample of this is not just Elon Musk's response to WFP*, but the fact that they have not responded yet with a plan. Oh and thank you Elon, more of this.
For me as a person also with a Master's degree in Economics the situation is clear:
We have to change.
*Musk: "If WFP can describe on this Twitter thread exactly how $6B will solve world hunger, I will sell Tesla stock right now and do it."
Acrylics and mixed media
100 x 100 cm
2021
Inspiration: Nasdaq's 5 year growth curve.
We live in a society and financial institution that are built on the expectation for constant growth. The more expensive things we own the more successful we are, the faster a country's GCP grows the better it’s doing and as long as the companies keep making more money each year they are successful. The entire Western economical system is built on the assumption that growth can be endless. This hunger for more, the faster the better, has resulted our environment to be in an unbearable state and causes people's mental and physical state to break at a frightening pace. The system has advanced fast but it has also done a disservice to itself and we expect technology to fix a big part of the problem - which, for some part, it probably will. Seeing how increasingly distortedly wealth is distributing across the world, I don't think anyone would agree that the situation is fair - or the best way to go about life. There is no quick fix as the problems we are facing are structural. A sample of this is not just Elon Musk's response to WFP*, but the fact that they have not responded yet with a plan. Oh and thank you Elon, more of this.
For me as a person also with a Master's degree in Economics the situation is clear:
We have to change.
*Musk: "If WFP can describe on this Twitter thread exactly how $6B will solve world hunger, I will sell Tesla stock right now and do it."