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Once you get past security, food and shelter, the question of what counts as "essential" gets really ambiguous, really fast. Almost everything can be traded off, so almost nothing is "safe" in any fixed order.
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How is the art world doing? On the one hand, it is everybody's default idea of non-essential stuff that can/should be cut in a crisis. Otoh, art is often close to money/power (cf Kennedy center) and particularly friendly to going highly virtual to survive artnews.com/art-news/news/
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What gets saved and what gets sacrificed goes from being a function of perceived "essentialness" to being a function of closeness to money and power.
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This crisis has cut deep enough that even financial services don't have a secure place in "essential services". There have already been moments when certain things have been more important than money briefly.
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Well, care work gets prime attention now. It's long overdue that the capitalist focus on production as the primary activity gets into question. The biggest problem lies in our ways of thinking and caring ... thanks for many inspirations you provided btw ;)
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I didn't understand this trade off. Could you give me more examples? How will art keep its monetary value?