Here from Mexico to tell y'all a cool story. The SEP, or Public Education Secretary directly translated, made basically a contest, or more accurately a “call for help”, for artists to design the book covers for the books that are used in public schools all over the country, all well and good, except that there’s no prize or payment, and the only prize is recognition. The excuse for no payment given is obviously framed as because of the pandemic, and most artists ar obviously not falling for that and instead sending meme designs, or crap doodles made in MS Paint, as more often than not in this country, artists are mocked for not having real jobs, and were also categorized as a “not necessary” job. If some of you can read spanish i suggest looking into it’s great.
Sorry if this is badly worded or something, have a nice day.
Here are some of the designs submitted by Mexico’s artists:
it’s a trap. if someone in the states on unemployment puts in an application and doesn’t come to the interview, or if they come to the interview but refuse the job offer, that gets reported to unemployment and that person can lose their unemployment benefits. then, with no income, they are suddenly desperate for wendy’s job offer. it’s sick.
They’re also filtering for people poor and desperate enough that a free breakfast sandwich is a big deal. Ie, people desperate enough to easily exploit.
