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>Culture isn't free. Someone is paying for it, and if you stop paying them, then it doesn't get created. This is just deeply wrong. Culture existed before mone

• KaiserPro 4y ago
  > It is tragic to me that a person can't see culture as anything but a marketable good. with respect, thats not what I am saying, I'm saying it has a cost. If people do not have the means to spend that money on making culture, then it is not created. Juvenal was a client of someone, and complained about it Tallis, Allegri, Purcell, Bach, Mozart were all professional composers The great seats of learning (Ashurbanipal's libary, Venice, Alexandria) are all paid for by a ruler wanting to show off how good they were Wilde, byron were all rich people wafting around bored and making art on the way. In the 60s-80s it was possible to live in NYC working at a bar or something, and still have time and money to create art. Where can you do that now? Now you need to be rich, or have time, or get patrons. The internet is a great way to either lower the cost of entry (see music) or get support to create (see Patreon) > This is just deeply wrong. Culture existed before money Culture existed when we had time, food and resources to stop worrying about being cold wet and hungry.