Citation needed. The notion that we have no art or artists unless compensated appears to imply money somehow causes art. If this were the case, then why all t

Citation needed. The notion that we have no art or artists unless compensated appears to imply money somehow causes art. If this were the case, then why all the fuss when capitalist music and art industry “discover” an artist? Sure, some pop groups are created, but the greats are discovered, long existing, before glommed onto by publishers or labels. The argument that artist was not already creating art, uncompensated, for the sake of creation and, particularly for music, sharing, seems without basis in clear objective reality of where art comes from or what ‘causes’ artists to create art. Perhaps you’re confusing distribution with art. The distribution industry would look very different if sharing were frictionless from artist to fan to fan and no middleman had to get a vig.