> Why does anyone really need an agent in 2019? Because being good in a field means your time spend in that field is valuable. Running around having meetings w

> Why does anyone really need an agent in 2019? Because being good in a field means your time spend in that field is valuable. Running around having meetings with people and trying to set up future work, negotiating pay ect. is time not spend in your field. It’s not that agents have some secret knowledge that artists simply cannot learn, it’s just that the time effort and network of an agent is entirely orthogonal to the art itself.