As a working class person who can’t afford art and has always pirates everything this is accurate.
Comment on Temu: UK artist's anger at finding work on site without permission
oeuf@slrpnk.net 1 day ago
This wouldn’t matter so much if 1) Arts Council funding hadn’t been decimated under austerity and 2) Working class people could afford to buy art.
The pool of people who can afford to keep the arts alive is rapidly diminishing. I work with artists and see this week in week out but it’s the same with everything.
Rich man moves to the village and everyone goes to work for him.
LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk 1 day ago
Just a few small questions, out of interest - would you buy art if it was significantly cheaper, or free? Or would it just be so low on your priority list that it would never be important enough?
If it was very cheap, or free, would you take “whatever was on offer”, or would you still have very particular tastes in what you liked?
LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 hours ago
It’s too low on the priority list. Rent, bills, food etc. all come first.
I only buy e.g. video games that are exceptionally enjoyable and exceptionally niche or an album on bandcamp of an artist who’s work I particularly enjoy with exceptionally few plays where 1 sale might make a difference, and even then I usually limit any such spend in total to a max of £20 at most, and it’s something I would only spend once a month at most, normally rarer.
As for like, drawings/paintings, I intrinsically see them as having almost zero value and cannot see myself ever paying for one, I would sooner invest in a printer and print something off Google images for a poster than anything else.
MoonManKipper@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Temu are stealing her work and profiting from it. It matters - clearly there are a bunch of people who can afford to keep art alive who are spending their money at Temu rather than with her. Sort that out and then art can be less dependent on public spending and thus more robust
Blackmist@feddit.uk 1 day ago
Isn’t Temu just a bunch of shady Chinese resellers in a trenchcoat like Amazon?
RobotToaster@mander.xyz 1 day ago
Temu sell it for just over the cost of production, while the artist sells it with a high mark up, there’s a difference in affordability.
FishFace@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Well, kinda. Their cost of production is lower partly because they don’t have to pay an artist enough to feed themselves.
DakRalter@thelemmy.club 1 day ago
Art takes time, money and creativity to make. Of course that’s going to be more expensive than downloading something someone else made and printing it out. Accounting for the time and costs that go into making art isn’t a high markup, it’s being paid for your labour.