Ʌei
pronounced:
"eye" or "I" which Google just told me is pronounced "ai." waow, that one really came full circle on its own, didn't it?
stands for:
Artist employment initiative
wut it is:
a collaborative effort with Kind AI )you know the one)s( better than Ʌei do, I'd imagine, anon( to provide funding for individual artists to make art instead of doing whatever cog-like job they've been stuf'd into )in some impossible shape( by the ailing systems and structures of capitalism.
"But who will flip the burgers," you cry out, in dismay.
"You should stop eating so many burgers, bro," you reply, then pause and do that scrunchy-thing with your face as you reconcile at least two facts:
one, you're talking/typing/writing to yourself )but you never claimed to be anything but a crazy cat man, so it is what it is(
two, you really like burgers, and all that other salty, pasty meatstuf which comes from ruthlessly slaughtering cute lil' lives en masse -- you are part of the problem -- and also probably should be there flipping burgers )hence the outrage( as evidenced by your creative writing degree and reportedly "terrifying" financial situation
"Okay, correction," you concede, "'we' should stop eating so many burgers'n'stuf. It's killing you, it's killing the planet with farts, and more directly it's killing a lot of fucking cows (and other innocent soft stuf that's just tryin' to, like, surviev -- dick move, humanity)."
goal:
more artists living > surviving.
upon some theoretical "success" of such an initiative:
congratulations! you've just spawned a whole new mess of problems and questions with your hopefoolish intentions!
but, fuck it -- someone's gotta try, so let's fucking try.
"Unsightly!" someone tsks, loudly. "Hardly employable!"
"whatever," you shrug. "it's just a bit of rage, bro."
k, how:
...idk...
do you, anon?