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I love art and I also love making art, but I have to work so I don’t get to spend as much time on it as I’d like. Yet that doesn’t mean I want to see other peo
by pavlov 1y ago
I love art and I also love making art, but I have to work so I don’t get to spend as much time on it as I’d like.
Yet that doesn’t mean I want to see other people making less art. On the contrary: I wish other people could create more great stuff that makes me happy, and I’m also happy if my tax euros (and my private consumption) help pay for that.
What I’m trying to say is that this idea of “I don’t get to do it, so nobody else should either” seems completely foreign to creativity. It’s not a zero-sum game.
- orangecat 1y ago“I don’t get to do it, so nobody else should either” That's not it at all. There are already tons of people doing it, so many that the incremental value of one more person is small. The low pay reflects that; it's a signal that you should consider other jobs that are more in demand.
- pxc 1y agoArt-as-job is an artifice we've instituted through the invention of copyright, whose purpose is to ensure that we live in a society rich with art. There is not and never has been any reason to believe that this system, though it may serve its purpose to some extent, actually captures or meaningfully quantifies the value of art to society. The "demand" for art is made-up in the first place, not an end in itself or a measure of an end itself. One invented means of propping up art isn't necessarily especially legitimate or natural compared to others.
- Workaccount2 1y agoYou don't have to pay tax, you can just go buy their work directly!
- pavlov 1y agoI want artists I’ve never heard of to have the ability to grow. Taxes are a great way to fund culture, sort of like an index fund: I don’t have to try to pick winners now, I’ll get the accumulated benefit eventually.