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Legislative debt, the Ever Given

A meme placing the bow of the grounded container ship Ever Given against a single excavator, used for the scale of accumulated legislation against the resource assigned to it.

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Meme: the vast bow of the Ever Given container ship labelled 'legislative debt' towers over a tiny excavator labelled 'two civil servants and a PDF'

Created: 2021
Medium: meme
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The labelling is the essay's; the photograph beneath it is not, and tracing it is outstanding work.

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used in: For the Love of Law

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illustrated by: For the Love of Law

Source: knowledge/images/legislative-debt-meme.md

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