Wolfgang
@sakhza
Retired controversialist and consultant of the Devil’s Advocate | Just watering my grass
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05-08-2009 06:42:05
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Van Gogh died broke because nobody wanted his paintings. He sold maybe one during his entire life. The art world thought his style was too immature. His brother Theo, an art dealer, kept him alive by sending money constantly. When Van Gogh passed in 1890, his brother, Theo died
Historically, the most vocal champions of socialism tend to emerge from inherited ancestral wealth, not lived scarcity. Economic security buys time, education, and moral abstraction; distance from hustle enables ideology. Capitalism, meanwhile, has been championed by the middle