> Consider classical music. Our society does not support classical musicians in the same way that we support ‘popular’ musicians “Society” is a leaky abstracti

> Consider classical music. Our society does not support classical musicians in the same way that we support ‘popular’ musicians “Society” is a leaky abstraction here. If you reify society as a thing that is capable of “supporting” or “not supporting” something you mean essentially the government. In that case, “society” probably provides more support to classical music than pop music, through grant programs, public funding of symphonies, etc.