Or we don’t and the rich suddenly notice that dollar notes can’t provide nourishment and don’t do laundry.
I expect this is where we’re headed. Several people I know who work on poverty wages in the arts industry here pay their room and board in elder- or child-care for a homeowner.
We often hear that terms like “feudalism” and “landed gentry” applied to Bay Area housing policy are over dramatic. I think they’re dead on.
I don't have much sympathy for anyone who chooses to work in the arts... One must see the risks taken, and that the rewards are unpredictable.
> elder- or child-care for a homeowner
Are you talking about the very wealthy here? The upper income? The middle or even low income earners that made good financial choices? Looking after children and elderly is honest work.
Are these art workers tied to the Bay Area by anything apart from their choices?
You have different goals in life than other people.
Please try to be aware that the path you've chosen is not the only right one. Some people have different goals.
Some people even have the cognitive ability to regard the goal of fulfillment in life and creativity as more important than the run-of-the-mill goal of survival that most people are seemingly satisfied with reaching towards.
Careers in the arts are generally regarded as belonging to the second category for all but a handful of lottery winners.
This is a failure of city planning and should not be excused or ignored as if this fialure was inevitable.
I am old enough to have family, friends and acquantances from plenty of different ages and wage brackets: minimum wage hospo, the retired poor, sickness beneficiaries, young and unemployed by choice, successful land-banked hippies, successful founders, successful artists etc. I support my friends and family, even when they are making lifestyle choices.
Your reply comes across to me as condescending.