If that's what art is to you, evoking an impressed response to a display of pure technical skill, applauding a party trick - "I painted this blindfolded with my brush held between my toes!" "I played this guitar solo with my pick held between my teeth!" - then hey good for you
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People spend their ENTIRE LIVES on works of art that no one will ever pay them for because no one wants them Is that unjust, somehow? Does everyone who puts effort into anything deserve payment for that effort even if it's not of benefit to anyone else
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They're so close to stumbling on Nozick's "Wilt Chamberlain" problem, that capitalism will always be perverse and silly all over the place Do pro athletes deserve to get paid 10,000x a teacher's salary to play a game? Is their signature on a ball objectively worth $5,000?
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People get so lost in the weeds about how rare athletes' physical abilities are and how painful their lives are and how high the risk of injury But that's obviously missing the point Nobody took a vote that NBA players should make that much because their lives suck
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They get paid that much because people really really enjoy watching basketball games, and pay a lot of money for that privilege, and the players demand they get a big chunk of that or else they won't play That's it Welcome to markets 101
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Don't like it, rebuild all of society on a different system Until then don't come complaining to me about the one part that annoys you because you don't share the customers' tastes
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(Talking about art and music, there's this one guy who can make his hands make that farting noise by pressing his palms together and he can do it with enough fine control to play recognizable tunes)
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(This is an EXTREMELY rare skill, it's estimated that there are less than a dozen "manualists" in the world who can reliably reproduce sounds this way, and he's the best at what he does AFAIK all he has is a middle-tier YouTube channel)
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(And you know, before the Internet he wouldn't have that The rarity and difficulty of what you do really is not the point and doesn't matter, the ONLY thing that matters is how much people like it)
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**whispers** the labor theory of value! it's bad!
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this reminds me of a HILARIOUS scene from "Black Sails" where a pirate is trying to convince another pirate that an original stolen painting and a shitty forgery should cost the same because both paintings have the same number of items depicted in them
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