I know absolutely nothing about you, but embracing any political or economic ideology that allows people qualified to be editors to end up cleaning apartments q

I know absolutely nothing about you, but embracing any political or economic ideology that allows people qualified to be editors to end up cleaning apartments qualifies as mean-spirited. One-foot-balancing is obviously different, in that it doesn't provide anything of value to society. On the other hand, the arts and literature do. There are people who want to provide value to the world in these fields and they can't.