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^And both are equally insufferable in their perceived self importance to the world.

Too bad I’m not a Roman Emperor, or else I’d host weekly public bouts where I’d pit them against one another in a fight to the death.

Obviously artists provide business value. That's why there is such a thing as the entertainment industry.

The distribution is different. The median programmer provides much more value than the median artist. Additionally math/cs skills apply much more broadly than art skills. The entertainment industry would be much less leveraged without the tools we built for them.

The median programmer provides much more value than the median artist.

An economy is not a society. There is more to the human experience than "number goes up".

Depends on whom you ask.