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It is privilege not because it requires time, but because it generally requires free time, outside of how you make your living. You can't apprentice as someone

It is privilege not because it requires time, but because it generally requires free time, outside of how you make your living. You can't apprentice as someone who consumes art. As for snobbishness, you have it backwards: no one is saying that snobbishness is required to have good taste, but that the privilege required to develop good taste results in good taste being, or being labeled as, snobbish.

Fricken 7y ago
I was priveleged enough to have a library card, and developed good taste using that.
coldtea 7y ago
>It is privilege not because it requires time, but because it generally requires free time, outside of how you make your living. That's the case for all kinds of things that are not jobs but people still want to have an opinion on. Besides, your very distinction is based on the idea that a job someone happens to work is the same as the field they want to work or have an opinion on. Which is not always (even rarely) the case. If I work at McDonalds but aspire to be a programmer, surfer, rapper, journalist, writer, director, whatever getting competence to criticize/have an opinion about that other field (or, even more so, land a programming gig) also requires that I have a free time from "how I make my living". >As for snobbishness, you have it backwards: no one is saying that snobbishness is required to have good taste, but that the privilege required to develop good taste results in good taste being, or being labeled as, snobbish. And my point is, there's no "privilege" or no more "privilege" than any other endeavour one needs to spend time to learn and understand. Everything takes time and effort to achieve, why would "good taste" be any different? Is being a surgeon "snobbish" because you need to study to become one? Plus unlike learning about art, it takes not just free time, but decade of attending classes, plus lots of money.

Fricken 7y ago

I was priveleged enough to have a library card, and developed good taste using that.

coldtea 7y ago

>It is privilege not because it requires time, but because it generally requires free time, outside of how you make your living. That's the case for all kinds of things that are not jobs but people still want to have an opinion on. Besides, your very distinction is based on the idea that a job someone happens to work is the same as the field they want to work or have an opinion on. Which is not always (even rarely) the case. If I work at McDonalds but aspire to be a programmer, surfer, rapper, journalist, writer, director, whatever getting competence to criticize/have an opinion about that other field (or, even more so, land a programming gig) also requires that I have a free time from "how I make my living". >As for snobbishness, you have it backwards: no one is saying that snobbishness is required to have good taste, but that the privilege required to develop good taste results in good taste being, or being labeled as, snobbish. And my point is, there's no "privilege" or no more "privilege" than any other endeavour one needs to spend time to learn and understand. Everything takes time and effort to achieve, why would "good taste" be any different? Is being a surgeon "snobbish" because you need to study to become one? Plus unlike learning about art, it takes not just free time, but decade of attending classes, plus lots of money.