Sounds like someone is upset that more people dont find utility in their work
And why do these "boring pleb jobs" exist? Why doesn’t everyone create and share their creations? This isn’t limited to art. Consider the inventor of insulin sold the patent for $1 because he believed “Insulin belongs to the world, not to me.” Anyone who creates from the heart, artists scientists or otherwise, should be the gold standard that all humans live by. If everyone lived this way, then there would be no need for busy work jobs.
I really, really wish this would happen, but I don't see a way around the bad actor problem. How do you build a human system that supports this that is also robust to exploitation?
Small steps. Acknowledge human nature for better or worse. Acknowledge that humans emulate what their exposed to. Consider cigarette smoking in the US sharply declined once legislation banned it from TV. The same should be done for idols: stop making idols of people based on their net worth. The average Joe knowing who Jeff Bezos is but not Frederick Banting is a failure of the media and education system. So start by promoting better role models and go from there.
I just don't appreciate the sentiment that artists deserve to exclusively make the art they want, the way they want because art holds a special value to society that needs to be supported.
Our society is drowning in art. There are millions of hours of content; videos, photos, drawings, music, books, etc that one can consume at any moment and more is being created every day. With this in mind it's pretty hard to believe that society isn't supporting artists enough.
Sure some artists are poor but many are well off or even rich. You can't same the same for people who pick vegetables which we need to eat to not die
Do you know how much hard work is involved in getting ps4 platinum trophies? So what?
Because it's an excellent investment, socially speaking.
Because investment in the arts (I mean serious investment. Not like USA) has worked pretty well for some countries.
And we're talking all realms of unrestrained creative effort here. Science, technology and stories about dragons. Opensource software as well as basement watercolorists. This is where the shiny new legos of our society come from.
I think that's just misunderstanding cause and effect. It's more that nations "invest" more in art as they get wealthier. It's not that they pay a bunch of people to do whatever they want and tada, the country becomes industrialized.
Perhaps we should invest infrastructure, systems and institutions that give people more free time, flexibility, freedom, and inspiration so they can create good art rather than "investing in the arts"--whatever that means