• howrar@lemmy.caEnglish
    11·
    6 hours ago

    People need food, shelter, and healthcare to live. Many artists are denied these things because they choose to provide us with entertainment instead of feeding the capitalist machinery. That is in fact very serious.

    • Bluescluestoothpaste@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      5 hours ago

      There was enough art to last anyone a thousand lifetimes before any of us were born, nobody is doing the world a favor by not getting a real job and sitting at home making art

      • howrar@lemmy.caEnglish
        5·
        3 hours ago

        Getting a job doing what? We already have way more than enough people for just about everything. What I want to see more of is art.

        • Bluescluestoothpaste@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          1·
          2 hours ago

          Then you can buy the art nobody is stopping you, not anyone else’s problem if an artist makes art nobody wants to buy and they need to get a job instead

          • howrar@lemmy.caEnglish
            3·
            1 hour ago

            Then you can buy the art nobody is stopping you

            Says the person trying to make it harder for me to find the artist that I should be buying from.