alt Hacker News> and why are artists being subsidized instead of essential workers?
There are far more than 2,000 real, paying jobs for schoolteachers. And for grocery clerks. And for nurses. And for fire fighters. And for drivers of rubbish lorries. And for ...
Not so much for the folks who hope to be the next James Joyce or Louis le Brocquy.
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AlexandrB • yesterday at 5:35 PM
Many people who work as schoolteachers, grocery clerks, etc. at one point might have had ambition to be the next James Joyce.
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mantas • yesterday at 5:28 PM
Those can go and do normal jobs like grocery clerks. While doing their art in free time. Like many famous artists were doing.
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I hope to be the next Rothshild, give me a trillion!