• melsaskca@lemmy.ca
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    11 hours ago

    You make it seem like I am against artists when I am for everybody, including artists. Don’t be so angry because you weren’t financially successful in your chosen field. Lots of people don’t make it. Some would say art is suffering and the masters were compelled. My hand-wringing is about imbalance. Find peace my friend, we are all artists.

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      10 hours ago

      If you’re actually advocating for fairness and things like universal basic income or even social safety nets, the worst way to do it is to whine like a wounded banshee when one segment or demographic gets it and you don’t, that’s been the number one way all of these programs have been shot down in history.

      If it’s successful and helps the country’s economics and quality of life, it will expand, it should be encouraged, not immediately have rocks thrown at it from frustrated people going “why not me?”

      Figure out what you actually want and how we get there, and decide if you think you can get everything you want all at once, or if we need to build things to get there.

      We are most certainly not all artists, the 2020’s have taught me that much.

      Don’t be so angry because you weren’t financially successful in your chosen field

      Terrible reading comprehension, I am angry at your whinging against an objectively good advancement, I am not an artist anymore and have no stake in this. I referenced being an artist because I know how unfair the field is and how unappreciated it is by people who have never taken the time to learn shit about art or don’t consider it a real career because they don’t take time to notice how much of their lives have been designed by professional and freelance artists.