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You misunderstand my point. I never said we do art only for money. I specifically objected to the idea that artists have only been able to do art for the money
by Pfhreak 8y ago
You misunderstand my point. I never said we do art only for money. I specifically objected to the idea that artists have only been able to do art for the money for the past few hundred years.
Sumeria had coinage thousands of years before common era. So money has definitely been a thing for more than a few hundred years.
- adrian_b 8y agoThey did not have coinage, but they already had prices and also professional musicians (besides other non-producing professionals which appeared there for the first time, i.e. judges, medical doctors, accountants and prostitutes) (obviously, chiefs and priests existed much time before written history). Initially the prices were expressed as weights of precious metals. The coins, which allowed simpler payments, without the use of weighing scales, appeared thousands of years later after the prices, probably in Lydia in the first millennium BC.