(07-03-2024, 11:28 PM)Propagandhim wrote: I can't figure it out. She wants to be an artist in a post-capitalist society where people don't give her monetary compensation for her work (until we dismantle capitalism, you have to pay)? I guess until the government supports her existence as an artist and providing her art to the world after capitalism is gone, she's mad nobody is willing to buy it out of their own free will? I can't follow. FWIW, the few artist friends I have don't have this problem - they have so much work lined up they have to pick and choose who to accept commissions from. Nepenthe, doing what Nepenthe does best - externalizing her personal problems to a system at large. Because she sucks, everything has to be torn down.
Well after the singularity, and after scarcity is over, we'll all be free to live in leisure all day everyday. It's only five years away too (although that may be after climate change ends the world of course)
