Perfectly happy to pay artists for their work; entirely unwilling to pay the scum that aggregate and charge for access to that art, with countless strings attached.
If it becomes impossible to make a living as an artist, the only people becoming creatives will be the kids of rich people. Mummy and daddy can pay for them to spend 10 years flouncing around Hollywood, making loss making tv shows, or whatever before they stand a chance of being paid enough. Already a huge problem.
If only rich people are making art, it’s inevitable that mass culture will be dominated by the ideology and beliefs of out of touch rich people. If you want culture that criticizes the status quo, you need more poor or working class kids in the creative sector.
This being said, my pension plan is a rope, so I’m quite happy pirating rather than paying for luxuries. Especially if I’m stealing from a company that engages in wage theft, avoids paying tax, etc. If anything it then becomes perfectly moral.
But if you have some spare money, go support artists and creatives who deserve it.
If someone doesn’t care enough about art to do it when it’s hard, their opinion isn’t more valuable than mine just because they’re poorer than me
I have been homeless before and probably will again because I have a spine - people who waste their lives doing whatever corporations tell them, do not have more valuable opinions than me just because they have less money than me
It would be more reasonable if no one paid artists for their work until there was enough food for everyone, and art had to come from people like me who can afford to do it regardless of how much money we have because we’d rather face stuff like homelessness than waste our lives
Perfectly happy to pay artists for their work; entirely unwilling to pay the scum that aggregate and charge for access to that art, with countless strings attached.
I don’t even get why pay artists for their work at times like this. Seems like that should be for times when there’s enough food for everyone.
Easy for me to say as someone with enough food to do art as a hobby, but still
If it becomes impossible to make a living as an artist, the only people becoming creatives will be the kids of rich people. Mummy and daddy can pay for them to spend 10 years flouncing around Hollywood, making loss making tv shows, or whatever before they stand a chance of being paid enough. Already a huge problem.
If only rich people are making art, it’s inevitable that mass culture will be dominated by the ideology and beliefs of out of touch rich people. If you want culture that criticizes the status quo, you need more poor or working class kids in the creative sector.
This being said, my pension plan is a rope, so I’m quite happy pirating rather than paying for luxuries. Especially if I’m stealing from a company that engages in wage theft, avoids paying tax, etc. If anything it then becomes perfectly moral.
But if you have some spare money, go support artists and creatives who deserve it.
Not that I’m judging anyone.
Nah, that’s all fundamentally wrong
If someone doesn’t care enough about art to do it when it’s hard, their opinion isn’t more valuable than mine just because they’re poorer than me
I have been homeless before and probably will again because I have a spine - people who waste their lives doing whatever corporations tell them, do not have more valuable opinions than me just because they have less money than me
It would be more reasonable if no one paid artists for their work until there was enough food for everyone, and art had to come from people like me who can afford to do it regardless of how much money we have because we’d rather face stuff like homelessness than waste our lives