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Similar Triangles Poem

The Caveat of Capitalism

2020
Digital
The Caveat of Capitalism, 2020 — Freedom = ((Money)(Obsession)) / Irresponsibility
The Caveat of Capitalism, 2020 — digital
The poem Freedom  =  (Money)(Obsession) ⁄ Irresponsibility

The value of freedom is to the value of money as the value of obsession is to the value of irresponsibility.

The same poem, solved four ways

A similar triangles poem is a proportion, a ⁄ b = d ⁄ e, and a proportion can be rearranged without changing what it claims. Each arrangement is a separate poem and all four say the same thing.

  1. Freedom = (Money)(Obsession) ⁄ Irresponsibility
  2. Money = (Freedom)(Irresponsibility) ⁄ Obsession
  3. Obsession = (Irresponsibility)(Freedom) ⁄ Money
  4. Irresponsibility = (Obsession)(Money) ⁄ Freedom
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