People do make art and be creative still so I don’t know why you’re asking why they don’t.
And people still do it because making art is a thing humans do and like to do. People still sew even though they can just buy clothing.
Acting like there’s a barrier for entry to make art is a flat out delusion. Humans were making art on caves with chalk and dirt they found. You can make art with a stick. Acting like artists are rich elitists is the most ignorant and incorrect thing I’ve ever read on the Internet.
LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
You do realise a barrier to entry doesn’t mean that something is literally impossible for everyone, but that it’s an obstacle for some?
It’s disingenuous comparing art someone would want to look at produced today to literal caveman drawings.
And yes artists are absolutely rich elites, the often very literal top 10%, feel free to look at my other comments ITT for why I’ve found this to be the case.
agent_nycto@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Dude artists are some of the most broke people out there, to the point where the starving artist is a trope, what are you smoking?
LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
I only smoke nicotine, cheers. I’ve heard of the trope but have never seen an example.
agent_nycto@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
It’s called sample bias. You’re only talking about the artists you’ve personally met, not the statistics of artists as a whole.
I also think you’ve got a bias in favor of tech bros because you see them as hard workers, and see artists as lazy elites.
And when I am talking about artists, I’m not talking about the small fraction that are in “high” arts with museums n shit.
It sounds to me that you you don’t really know a lot of artists and don’t really know a lot about this whole situation but still managed to form an opinion.