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Do you know in what ways *you* are building on a flood plain? Is for eg. all of academia a flood plain? Is making art and expecting Patreon/NFT income that different from building in a hurricane zone and expecting FEMA bailout? Super easy to rationalize your thing as prosocial.
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hmm, not sure this socializing risk idea maps to patronage that easily. In both cases there’s at least a sense of getting value in return for your investment. Speculative relationships to that value are not intrinsic to the exchange
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We also think we get return on our taxes I tend to the view that all loftier sentiments driving direct or indirect spending work on the same emotions. I don’t feel that differently about supporting an artist vs my tax dollars supporting a museum.
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not sure I understand the definition of risk being n the artist case. is it like because they aren’t choosing more productive/secure ways to spend their time?
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Something like that, esp on the trustie end. You might elevate our collective soul with some sublime art. Or you might just self-indulgently free-ride on others’ confused sentiments and loopholes in cronyist institutional grant programs, with a trust fund backstopping you.
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surely there are some other options here 😂 on some level all creative work is a scam on paper - selling or receiving money for worthless things with the illusion of value due to surface qualities - but there are also whole industries dependent on continued creative production
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And there are whole industries devoted to constructing homes in hurricane zones. And brave forestry officials and fire fighters rescuing people from wildfires. The existence of a vast support stack for flood plain building doesn’t make it not flood plain building.
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