Occupy George

I haven’t been fol­low­ing the Occupy Wall Street move­ment all that closely, but I’ve been pay­ing enough atten­tion to know that it’s spark­ing quite a few thought-provoking con­ver­sa­tions. So I was excited to come across this exten­sion of the move­ment, Occupy George—a per­fect con­ver­sa­tion starter. By stamp­ing dol­lar bills with rel­e­vant info­graph­ics, the facts will lit­er­ally be placed right in con­sumers’ hands. And it doesn’t hurt that the graph­ics are sim­ply and clearly designed to make an instant impact. You can learn more about the project and down­load tem­plates to use for your­self right here.

Money talks, but not loud enough for the 99%. By cir­cu­lat­ing dol­lar bills stamped with fact-based info­graph­ics, Occupy George informs the pub­lic of America’s daunt­ing eco­nomic dis­par­ity one bill at a time. Because money knowl­edge is power.

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10 Comments

  1. Dadara
    Posted October 18, 2011 at 3:48 pm | Permalink

    Beheading George: http://​blog​.artas​money​.com/​a​r​t​-​a​s​-​m​o​n​e​y​/​c​ut/

  2. IceHat
    Posted October 18, 2011 at 6:42 pm | Permalink

    1 dol­lar bills?
    Only poor peo­ple got those.
    They should stamp some 100 dol­lar bills.

  3. Sean McAndrew
    Posted October 18, 2011 at 7:37 pm | Permalink

    The 1% will never see those measly $1 bills. I like the idea though

  4. Lost
    Posted October 19, 2011 at 12:09 am | Permalink

    Anyone ever think that maybe that 1% earned the wealth dis­tri­b­u­tion they have? I mean they did, either cur­rently or some point in the past, cre­ate a prod­uct that is paid for and used by “every­one else”. I will never under­stand why peo­ple hate those who are wealthy. They didn’t just wake up and become “the 1%”; they found some way of either work­ing or maybe even exploit­ing their way up. While we sit here look­ing at web­sites and typ­ing com­ments… that is why we aren’t “the 1%”.

  5. Daniel
    Posted October 19, 2011 at 6:53 am | Permalink

    Effective, but mis­lead­ing. Market value is not stuff — arith­metic per­formed on it is not as mean­ing­ful as peo­ple pre­sume, and adding it all up results in non-sense. Talking about who has 1% or 5% or 20% of the sum of mar­ket value is just mysticism.

  6. Courtney
    Posted October 19, 2011 at 8:37 am | Permalink

    I’m pretty sure the goal of this was to edu­cate the 99%, and urge them to take some sort of action. The 1% may be the tar­get of the entire OWC move­ment, but they’re not the direct audi­ence for this project.

  7. Stephen
    Posted October 19, 2011 at 2:10 pm | Permalink

    Good idea, Get the mes­sage to the 99%. “Anyone ever think that maybe that 1% earned the wealth dis­tri­b­u­tion they have?” You mean like earn­ing it by abus­ing people’s needs by over­charg­ing, or by not get­ting taxed equally? or by being born into money and being a greedy spoiled brat because your greedy spoiled par­ents never taught you moral­ity or the value of a dollar?

  8. Sam
    Posted October 20, 2011 at 10:51 am | Permalink

    Isn’t defac­ing us cur­rency illegal?

  9. smith
    Posted October 21, 2011 at 12:53 am | Permalink

    What about Oprah, she is in the 1%, do we hate her?

    The 1% should not be forced to give to the 99% but they should be taxed equally with the rest of us.

  10. George Hammerton
    Posted October 21, 2011 at 1:49 pm | Permalink

    Beautifully done, awe­some designs and a great idea too.

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