I know a lot of people who do art for a living. They are basically treated like shit by capitalism. Nobody respects how much time, effort and training goes into art. Art is fucking hard. You get paid next to nothing for it.
Unless you sell your soul to work in advertising/marketing. Then you get paid only slightly more than nothing. You are also now expected to churn out a fuckton of art each day if you want to keep your job. Enjoy watching everything unique, creative and special be sucked out of your art by higher-ups that demand safe, soulless corporate art. Enjoy being told you’re expendable and easily replaced so you work an extra 5 hours unpaid that night. Working conditions in some advertising agencies are close to resembling sweatshops with how they exploit their junior artists in particular. I knew someone that used to work 7 days a week, even though they weren’t paid on weekends. They worked until midnight (unpaid overtime) only to start again at 8am the next day again. That’s how ‘competitive’ the industry is. They eventually had a nervous breakdown and changed careers.
Art being some bourgeoise thing where a beret-wearing snob sells a photo of piss for 5 trillion dollars is not the norm (as funny as that would be). The norm is backbreaking work for very little in return, like every other job title that isn’t CEO, Manager, or Landlord.
So yeah, even though I’m fascinated by AI art and don’t think it would necessarily be a bad thing if it was being used in a socialist setting, I think artists have every right to be upset that tech bros are finding a way to suck even more life out of art.
In short, creatives get treated like shit. Thinking art isn’t real work is chud-level shit.
Thinking art isn’t real work is chud-level shit.
:100-com:%. It’s literally the same brainworms as “baristas aren’t working class”.
No idea why some dudes are so obsessed with gatekeeping the working class when it’s a pretty straightforward thing to determine if you pull your head out of your ass.
Art is one of the main things that makes this shithole worth living in. Imagine if we outlawed all music tomorrow. Think of all the industry halls that play radio all day to keep the workers sane, think of people in their offices, think of people at the dentist, in a traffic jam, etc… It’d be bloody barbarism.
It’s not my revolution if I can’t dance.
Artists make the silly gay comics I read :chavez-salute:
Art being some bourgeoise thing where a beret-wearing snob sells a photo of piss for 5 trillion dollars is not the norm (as funny as that would be).
Yup. An artist with a commercial empire is a businessperson first and foremost, however they choose to style theirself. Booges like to play pretend at being artists, farmers, and reusable rocketship designers but all they know how to do is eat shit and tweet
it’s crazy how a lot of people’s public image of the art world is andy warhol or jeff koons or some insane shit like that. from that angle i can see how people think art is bougie nonsense, but the reality is that these are capitalists masquerading as artists. indeed, the question is real—can true art even exist in a profit-driven economy? does capital not pervert the very art it claims to create?
