On Servitude...

I live in a pretty well-to-do Brooklyn neighborhood, and often on my way to work I'll see something like this:

And it makes me think of this:

...which brings up a whole host of questions about history, our current society, the nature of employment, race relations, power relations, and the economy. And I have to uncomfortably reflect on my own role in this whole web, my complicity as well as my contributions.

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