I didn’t say that artists deserve to be billionaires. I said that if an artist writes a song, and enough people buy that song to make him a billionaire, at he hasn’t done it by exploiting thousands of workers, and keeping profits that should have been shared with those workers. He got rich because people were willing to buy his ideas.
However, I also acknowledged while his side of the process may be exploitation-free, the side that actually distributes that song in the marketplace is NOT exploitation-free.
I’m not excusing any billionaires, I’m just saying there’s a big difference between wealthy artists, and people whose business was conceived with exploitation baked into the business plan from the start.
Sorry, I was not trying to make it out like you said that. Just generally that people are so obsessed with money it has perverted their view of art. Art is not about making money even if a few people successfully do this. It is about expression.
Trying to make art about money is a perversion which can be seen on platforms like Spotify where artists now pay more than streamers to get their music heard. This is not art/expression, it is commercialization.
While I am not against artist trying to sell their works, I am against corporations stealing and taking the lions share of the profits. Think musicians who don’t own their works or graphic artists that regularly get ripped off by corporations.
Corporations are so addicted to greed they are even trying to cut out the small portion of profits given to artists with AI and all signs seem to indicate they are going to be wildly successful pushing slop without any human artists.
This, of course, is not the end of art by any means.
I didn’t say that artists deserve to be billionaires. I said that if an artist writes a song, and enough people buy that song to make him a billionaire, at he hasn’t done it by exploiting thousands of workers, and keeping profits that should have been shared with those workers. He got rich because people were willing to buy his ideas.
However, I also acknowledged while his side of the process may be exploitation-free, the side that actually distributes that song in the marketplace is NOT exploitation-free.
I’m not excusing any billionaires, I’m just saying there’s a big difference between wealthy artists, and people whose business was conceived with exploitation baked into the business plan from the start.
Sorry, I was not trying to make it out like you said that. Just generally that people are so obsessed with money it has perverted their view of art. Art is not about making money even if a few people successfully do this. It is about expression.
Trying to make art about money is a perversion which can be seen on platforms like Spotify where artists now pay more than streamers to get their music heard. This is not art/expression, it is commercialization.
While I am not against artist trying to sell their works, I am against corporations stealing and taking the lions share of the profits. Think musicians who don’t own their works or graphic artists that regularly get ripped off by corporations.
Corporations are so addicted to greed they are even trying to cut out the small portion of profits given to artists with AI and all signs seem to indicate they are going to be wildly successful pushing slop without any human artists.
This, of course, is not the end of art by any means.