1/ The suffering artist/philosopher ideal is guardian bs. Idealism is the luxury of people who do obviously useful things.
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2/ Artists and philosophers must be *more* commerce/trade oriented than, say, startup founders or manufacturers of PCBs.
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3/ Real money buys you luxury of idealistic utopianism. Unless they are trusties, philosophers and artists tend to be hard-headed traders.
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That makes them easy customers. They've done Phase 1 themselves :)
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fwiw, use of the word "authentic" is a dead giveaway in my book, of an idealistic temperament :)
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I wish. Does not match my experience. Not philosophical restlessness or anxiety at least. Only career/family type specific ones
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My point is elevating that to philosophical ones. Without such elevation, fad-diet hucksters have jobs, not artists/phils.
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I address that question of relativism in that link to some extent. Like all edge-of-solipsism questions, that's tough of course
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You're way more up to speed on the inside baseball stuff here. I'm mostly a free-market huckster :)
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It is not profitable in the angsty and idealistic way most people do it. "I am a beautiful mind, society owes me a comfy living"
