• Kichae@lemmy.ca
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    5 months ago

    Hey, that’s like every other work, and people still get paid for their shit output in other fields.

    There’s no reason for any of us to compete to survive. Especially when the metric that determines whether one succeeds in competing is just how much money some rich fuck makes off of your efforts.

    • Crampon@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      Creating art is a product which requires demand. Say you work as a graphic designer for a magazine or TV station. Then you make your money doing art just as a receptionist make money sitting behind the desk.

      Being a receptionist as a freelance is a pretty shitty gig I believe. Working with art as a freelancer is actually possible. But it require a lot of networking and actual talent.

      The demand for mediocre art is low. The demand for good art is high. Prices on popular works increase fast.

      • aliteral@lemmy.world
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        4 months ago

        Wait. Define good and mediocre, first. Then, please, adress the most important point: why should we have to compete to just survive? Also, that kind of competition, and the inequalities that it gives birth to, benefit mostly the system and the very very very few people that are behind it, not the majority of the people.