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The China Question (Ethics, Manufacturing, and Making a Living as an Artist)
Unless labor, business and environmental conditions improve in a more permanent, widespread way, are artists just supposed to turn a blind eye to the labor practices that their money is supporting?
I read Hillbilly Elegy – and I don’t understand why it makes people mad.
Hillbilly Elegy is not an attack on the white working class, nor is it an attempt to scapegoat government safety nets or the Democratic party as the perpetrators of poverty in the United States. It’s a memoir.
What the hell happened?
I’m still not sure. The “bad year” turned into another “bad year”. And so far, it looks like we’re balls deep in “bad year” number three. Maybe it’s going to be bad years from here on out. Maybe nothing is ever going to be the same as it was. And, in some ways, that’s a…