Which is precisely the point The majority of people complaining are complaining that their “specialness” is being commodified What actually happened was they

Which is precisely the point The majority of people complaining are complaining that their “specialness” is being commodified What actually happened was they commodified themselves and their work, in order to gat paid and maintain their position in the world as an “artist” They are now pretending that that what they were doing had more value than it actually does simply because it takes skill and craft and they define themselves by it Guess what, making metal fenders by hand takes a shit load of skill and craft, same with exterior plaster artists same with molding and crowning artistry - 100% of those kinds of workers were replaced perfectly by Machines. You cannot replace demand for art qua art - because you are selling a moment in time of an artist expressing a fully felt emotional release. You can’t buy that because it cannot be created via money. It is a unique and temporal experience that can only be done by one person at one time in the world. you can however, replace demand for art in service to commerce and it is a function of capitalism that that will be replaced because by function, it is in service of promoting a commercial behavior, not the expression of an artist in communicating themselves