Jugend ohne Geld: the owner of this bag doesn’t make a cent and is proud of it, because otherwise you wouldn’t go out on the street with such a statement in cow letters. The bag is merchandise from a German deprived post-punk noise band. That had to make money somehow when it couldn’t tour because of some virus. The bag contains some clothes: two worn underpants, socks, a shirt with feathers on the sleeves and a bra. The bag owner is probably a girl, or someone who identifies differently and has nothing to do with gender roles. Because let’s face it, the youth of today is far too woke to worry about those sort of trivial pigeonholes. That this is about the youth, that’s for sure, because duh, that’s also on the bag.
If you don’t have money, you have to be creative. And that’s the owner of this bag: that green thing looks like a clay candle holder and that blue object could be a bowl, or a homemade headpiece. The point is that you can also make it quite cozy with few resources. You can fix broken things with duct tape, replace healthy food with a vitamin pill and to keep the light from burning unnecessarily, you can put a timer in the circuit. It can hardly be a coincidence: this bag owner bought duct tape as well as vitamin pills and a timer at Action, we see on the receipt that is between the clothes. For less.
Conclusion: those who are a little creative can do with a little less. Even anti-capitalist statements make money if you print them on trendy bags. But that this Jugend ohne Geld is now also Jugend ohne Tasche, that’s a shame.
A version of this article also appeared in NRC in the morning of December 9, 2021
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