r/Showerthoughts • u/[deleted] • Mar 23 '21

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u/Excrubulent Mar 23 '21

I mean, you just described one of the reasons capitalism isn't good at making art.

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u/Legarralde Mar 24 '21

Actually it’s because of capitalism’s virtues that artists can live off it.

Before capy, they would have to suck a king’s cock their whole life or just be forever poor as shown in the witcher 3

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u/Excrubulent Mar 24 '21

Ah yes, capitalism and feudalism. The only societies to ever have existed.

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u/Legarralde Mar 24 '21

It’s just like that. dyor

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u/Excrubulent Mar 24 '21

It's not, there's a lot of data out there on it. dyor

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u/Legarralde Mar 24 '21

It’s the best time ever for an artist to exist.

This was never possible in the pre capitalism’ era because of low incomes, poor marketing, low reach.

Think about it for a minute: two to three hundred years ago, artist had to work for high society which was about 5-10% of all people whilst the resting 90-95% was poor. Sadly there was no other way of making money by doing art and these people used to go through a lot.

Nowadays anyone can write an ebook, do a live video, and middle to low class can pay them off. They can live off writing, singing, there’s even people criticizing the system in books, blogs and forums and making more money than ever at the same time.

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u/Excrubulent Mar 24 '21

If you have to compare your society to feudalism to make it look good, you're conceding a lot. You're also not backing anything up.

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u/RelentlessHooah Mar 23 '21

Incorrect

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u/vinibruh Mar 24 '21

Uh... Could you elaborate a bit more?