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[-] t3rmit3@beehaw.org 1 points 2 weeks ago

You keep using the word "useful" in a way that suggests you've narrowly defined it in your head to exclude art. Life without art quickly results in a whole lot of death. Even the poorest humans throughout history have created music and art, because it's a fundamental part of human life. Just because art is less critical to immediate survival in most cases than eating doesn't make it any less necessary than it; shelter being more or less critical than food in a given situation (deadly sub-zero blizzard, more critical. Temperate area with no dangerous weather or predators, less critical) also doesn't make it more or less necessary, it's just a varying order of necessity. Being anti-Capitalist is important, but I feel like you've written off "professional" art as the domain of Capitalism rather than another victim of it (which food is as well, for that matter).

[-] iloveDigit@piefed.social 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

No, art is definitely less necessary than eating. Art doesn't help much if you're starving to death.

And yeah, poor people can make art. In fact, I don't think you can be too poor to do art. You can be too poor to eat.

As long as there are people starving, there's not enough money for food and therefore far from enough money for art (which is supposed to be free anyway, as is food indeed).

[-] t3rmit3@beehaw.org 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Art doesn’t help much if you’re starving to death.

And being well-fed doesn't help much if you're contemplating suicide because your life has no joy in it. And art is not the only source of joy, but it is one of them (and one of the most common).