Selling art to pay rent isn’t making art. Most of these artists are appropriating existing style elements and composing them; that itself isn’t new. Someone think of the first world artist reliant on sweat shop labor to serve their real needs so the artist can master science fiction comic book art

Story mode economic feudalism is the last barnacle of history to wash out. It’s from religious times but stripped of the metaphor and analogy.

Automation and physical statistics can keep enough stuff on shelves we don’t riot, communities can solve their last mile problems as their daily work, and noodle on their own artistic thing without having to sell it.