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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.

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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?

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- LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  I only smoke nicotine, cheers. I’ve heard of the trope but have never seen an example.
  
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  - 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.
    
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    LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨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 know what sample bias is.
    
    If you read my linked comment carefully, I’m not talking about just people I’d met IRL personally, I genuinely don’t know of any actually struggling contemporary artbros.
    
    Statistics lie, like I said, they may earn less on paper as a wage, but they are raking it in otherwise or have QoL far superior to even the top wagies, if they couldn’t, they’d be working at a factory.
    
    And when I am talking about artists, I’m not talking about the small fraction that are in “high” arts with museums n shit.
    
    And did I mention or imply I meant anything of the sort? No by artbros I just meant (like in the linked comment) people who are professionally doing things like animating, drawing, 3D modeling/CGI, writing, film or music.
    
    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.
    
    Prove me wrong then.
    
    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.
    
    If that were the case I’d still know way more than you it seems.
    
    Or do you have an actual counterpoint, like an example?
    
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