Paying artists a small fee for their work through a necessary middleman isn’t perpetuating the system in any meaningful way.
It’s the unneccesary trillion dollar middlemen that have bribed the regulators and positioned themselves as the only authority in a market that are doing the most harm.
Further, they’re getting subsidized by taxpayet money to do so.
TL;DR: buy beer from the back of a van, it does not matter
real_squids@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
You can paint it on a shirt yourself ;)
moakley@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Too difficult. Better to ask someone who’s good at painting to do it for you. Then you can give them something, as a sign of respect, to compensate them for their time.