#title Freedom is Money
#author Fifth Estate Collective
#SORTauthors Fifth Estate Collective;
#date 1969
#source [[https://www.fifthestate.org/archive/93-november-27-december-10-1969/freedom-is-money]]
#lang en
#pubdate 2019-09-08
#notes Fifth Estate #93, November 27-December 10, 1969

“To be free you have to have bread to do free things. The more bread you got, the freer you become.”

—Mike Quatro (Hippie band booking agent, explaining how he equates making money off “the movement”) <em>Detroit News</em>, Nov. 16, 1969

FREEDOM IS MONEY, MONEY IS FREEDOM, FREEDOM IS MONEY. MONEY IS FREEDOM—just ask Henry Ford II. How do you get freedom? Sell people a piece of shit car for twice what it is worth and pay the workers in wages half of the value they produce. Or dress in hip clothes, put on rock concerts and charge the people $8 a head. Two sure-fire ways to get freedom. But how do the rest of us get free—“You gotta get the hog out of the stream if you want to drink clean, clear water.”—Chairman Bobby Seale, Black Panther Party.

In other words we must off the pig that is getting free at the people’s expense.