Mayu > Recent Status Updates

«There is a stubborn misconception that the job market is like a game of musical chairs. It's not. Productive women, seniors, or immigrants won't displace men, young adults, or hardworking citizens from their jobs. In fact, they create more employment opportunities. A bigger workforce means more consumption, more demand, more jobs.»

"Capitalist or communist, it all boils down to a pointless distinction between two types of poor, and to a major misconception that we almost managed to dispel some 40 years ago — the fallacy that a life without poverty is a privilege you have to work for, rather than a right we all deserve."

«"The big reason poor people are poor is because they don't have enough money", notes economist Charles Kenny, "and it shouldn't come as a huge surprise that giving them money is a great way to reduce that problem."»

«"Poverty is fundamentally about a lack of cash. It's not about stupidity", stresses the economist Joseph Hanlon»

yESSS.

"(What Hatüey said on that pyre is a legend in itself: Are there white people in Heaven? Then I'd rather go to Hell.)"

«[Trujillo] He was our Sauron, our Arawn, our Darkseid, our Once and Future Dictator, a personaje so outlandish, so perverse, so dreadful that not even a sci-fi writer could have made his ass up.»

«Lo primero es deshacernos de esa idea antigua, transcultural y alienante de que los gestores de residuos, los "basureros", son una casta estigmatizada, idea que nos ha llevado a convertir "nuestra" basura en la "suya": ellos son los "sucios", nosotros los "limpios".» —Mierle Laderman Ukeles. «Sanitation Manifesto!», 1990.

(Versión de Yale, 2005.) Primer intento leyendo Shakespeare en inglés... Cuesta bastante, pero vale la pena. Es una experiencia completamente distinta a leerlo en español.

"(...) Cuide la Argentina sus talentos, como hacen los prácticos yanquis. No se proteja lo mediocre importado, pudiendo tener lo sublime nacional." (Rubén Darío)

"(...) nuestros arquitectos de teatro han sido invariablemente europeos y se han limitado a aplicar el tipo clásico de salas de espectáculo, sin razonarlo, conservando el concepto eminentemente aristocrático de sacrificar la comodidad de la mayoría a la mejor colocación de una minoría de espectadores." (E. Schiaffino, 1905) *cofcofTeatroColóncofcof*