Comment on Not everything needs to be Art

• Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Yeah, nothing is more bougie than independent artists, most of whom are struggling to make ends meet even WITH a day job… 🙄

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  • LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Boo-fucking-hoo they have a “day” job? Wow so do I! It’s called being working class. Newsflash you don’t get paid for hobbies, be they drawing or sleeping.

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    • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      So you’re one of those “art is just a hobby for the indolent” idiots?

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      • desktop_user@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        art can be a profession, however the demand for art is way lower than the supply of artists leading to most of the artists being “underpaid” and not earning a livable wage.

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    • erin@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Yikes. A world without artists would be a dark, dark place. What an incredibly terrible take, unless you’re implying that the only art that counts as labor is when it’s for a corporation, which, even worse take, yikes again.

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      • LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        A world without commercial artists would not be too different to me, because art is something everyone should do for themselves and their community.

        All it’s led to is commercialisation and enshittification, turning everyone into drooling consumers who don’t even have the willpower to stop scrolling the most mind-numbing of content feeds ever devised.

        I don’t want artists to starve, even the most shallow, talentless fail-upwards hack deserves a living wage and the material safety that a society defined by it’s excess could easily provide.

        But the reason you don’t like people even just aimlessly messing around with AI art is because it demonstrates that you could do something with your life if you gave a shit, and how many have decided to at least try, now that ir doesn’t take time they don’t have to put their ideas into some form, crappy as it may be, instead of only consooming treats and glorifying others in an endless cycle of celebrity worship, while it all just goes over your head.

        It’s as shallow a reason as there can be, and I don’t give a rat’s ass what anyone thinks, I’m an anarchist, I will stand by that anything that erodes the power of corporations, especially of such an absurd notion as intellectual property claimed on the infrastructure of the commons - as this does - is the right thing to do.

        And spiritually, emotionally, in my heart of hearts - of-fucking-course actual working class people in their dreary cities hours and hours on end in traffic or the subway getting home to hungry children and being able to partake in art is a fucking good thing, not just us (me, idk about you) post-modern aristocrats chatting on Lemmy at 1AM.

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• TrousersMcPants@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Says the person supporting capitalist corporations pushing AI as a replacement for real human artwork?

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  • LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    When have I ever defended corporations, capitalism, or replacing human artwork?

    You motherfuckers are as delusional as the great replacement people.

    Boo-fucking-hoo you cannot draw for a living. For most of us it’s already true, it’s called being working class.

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    • TrousersMcPants@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Frankly I don’t know who the fuck you support, you just seem like an asshole for the sake of making people not like you

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• PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I agree, except you’re the one showing solidarity with the bourgeoisie.
  AI is a too of the bourgeoisie to suppress the working class

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  • LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    No, it is a tool of the commons to subvert the intellectual property regime of the petit bourgeoisie artists.

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    • TrousersMcPants@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Do you think people are like, born with the ability to make art? Are they some kind of upper class? You can just go learn to draw you know, you don’t need to use AI

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    • PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      It’s a tool created and controlled by the bourgeoisie, primarily designed to and markered for replacing skilled labor.

      The fact you think displaced artists are petite bourgeoisie instead of skilled labor is telling.

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• EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Ah yes, how dare artists make $5 an hour instead of $0 while you pay a corporation a subscription fee instead. That’ll show those lazy artists that they’ve had it too good for too long.

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  • LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I don’t pay subscription fees for anything, speak for yourself lol.

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