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What do you mean? It's still normal to have a "blue collar job", isn't it? Not to mention "retail"? Whether or not one is an artist. "Many" people do that and s
by creer 2y ago
What do you mean? It's still normal to have a "blue collar job", isn't it? Not to mention "retail"? Whether or not one is an artist. "Many" people do that and support their family that way. And it's still normal for artists to have a day job. Not just for young ones.
I don't think the Philip Glass story is all that different from today's artists'. More retail, less steel mill.
if anything, there is more awareness now that a day job is normal. And that the main concern is that this job needs to not be "toxic". That is, it needs to leave you enough energy to do your art. That's the main requirement.
- kevinventullo 2y agoI have no data to back it up, but my instinct is that “today’s artists” are increasingly supported by rich parents or spouses when compared with those of 50 years ago. This is a consequence of wealth concentration and the destruction of the middle class.
- vinceguidry 2y agoErr, for all of history and longer it's been that way.
- ChrisMarshallNY 2y agoIndeed. There was this guy named Vincent Van Gogh, who lived on patronage and odd jobs, all his life. If he could see the premium his work fetches, now, he’d probably be pissed. Gratified, but also pissed. He had a rough life.
- kevinventullo 2y agoI agree that for much of history, there was in fact more wealth inequality than there is today.