I am sure that art is very hard work. I also happen to believe that art is extremely valuable to society. I enjoy art almost constantly throughout the day and it makes my life better.

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