> we already have more than enough good art to last anyone a lifetime It's easy to see that this is false. Pick an arbitrary point in history and imagine that

> we already have more than enough good art to last anyone a lifetime It's easy to see that this is false. Pick an arbitrary point in history and imagine that cultural production had stopped at that point. Would that be "enough good art"? Of course not. Old art is not our art. > artists are mostly motivated by social status anyway Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.