JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 8 months agoInteresting how artists don't make enough money from their creations, so our solution is to make certain information illegal to share, rather than give them a universal basic income.message-squaremessage-square229fedilinkarrow-up1600arrow-down1118
arrow-up1482arrow-down1message-squareInteresting how artists don't make enough money from their creations, so our solution is to make certain information illegal to share, rather than give them a universal basic income.JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 8 months agomessage-square229fedilink
minus-squareLaticaudalinkfedilinkarrow-up19arrow-down1·8 months agoYou say that like it’s a bad thing. We could use more people who can afford to make art in the world, even if a lot of it would be shitty art.
minus-squarerealitista@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·8 months agoDo we really need them more than doctors, plumbers, teachers, etc. though? While I’m for a UBI, I’m against it being enough to fully live off of for exactly this reason. The world doesn’t need a bunch more popsicle stick art.
minus-squareLaticaudalinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·8 months agoSpeak for yourself. I think the world would be a much better place with more popsicle stick art.
minus-squarefsxylo@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down2·8 months agoEeh deviant art had that perspective and then got flooded with mspaint fetish porn and became unusable. Art station on the other hand always blows me away every time I visit the front page. So there’s a limit.
You say that like it’s a bad thing. We could use more people who can afford to make art in the world, even if a lot of it would be shitty art.
Do we really need them more than doctors, plumbers, teachers, etc. though? While I’m for a UBI, I’m against it being enough to fully live off of for exactly this reason. The world doesn’t need a bunch more popsicle stick art.
Speak for yourself. I think the world would be a much better place with more popsicle stick art.
Eeh deviant art had that perspective and then got flooded with mspaint fetish porn and became unusable.
Art station on the other hand always blows me away every time I visit the front page. So there’s a limit.