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Nobody pays to view a mural, but a lot of people view it, and property values go up as a result. It cost the artist time, effort, and money to make it, and if y
by komali2 8mo ago
Nobody pays to view a mural, but a lot of people view it, and property values go up as a result. It cost the artist time, effort, and money to make it, and if you hire an artist specifically to make a mural, it's prohibitively expensive for an individual.
Better to amortize the cost across the population and have public works. Like we do for infrastructure. Seems to work just fine.
- philipallstar 8mo agoIsn't this arguing indirectly for national taxpayers to prop up the value of certain properties? Why not just have a local collaboration with a local artist and people pay directly?
- jimnotgym 8mo agoBecause they would all refuse, presumably? Like they would refuse to fix the road, because that would benefit everyone not just their greedy selves.
- philipallstar 8mo agoYes, local roads are usually taken care of by local taxes. Why would Manhattan's road improvements be paid for by rural Virginians?
- komali2 8mo agoThat's just an arbitrary separation. Both places benefit from the federal highway system that allows goods to be delivered across State lines. Both benefit from the maintenance of shipping lanes, the national power grid, the submarine cables connecting them to Europe and Asia, the... This is why hyper privatization will fail: it's impossible to separate out all the intricately intertwined systems in such a way that people are throwing pennies in a million directions to pay exactly enough to each stakeholder involved in the functioning of their society.