Make wealthy benefactors cool again
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I'm serious. The memetic environment around high net worth giving is FUBAR. We're somehow more comfortable with concentrating taste-making in a tiny handful of hermetically sealed institutions than having a broad set of relatively rich people directly support artists & scholars
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I'm really worried about the 2nd order effects. For example, Epstein had a bunch of really successful academics that were cravenly sucking up to him for cash - if rich person patronage becomes the norm, you'd start to see it as a de facto requirement in tenure applications.
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For example, it's basically an unspoken rule at many universities that in order to get tenure in biomedical research you need a certain number of renewed RO1 grants. I can see a grim future where scientists have to have a certain number of patrons to be considered for tenure.
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I see Patreon as one solution to the bigger problem you're calling out here.
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Crowd-sourced beneficence.
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It'S dEmOcRaTiC.
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I'm less worried about the "should billionaire money be democratically distributed" and more from the likely tradeoff that billionaires are discouraged from giving away money to plausibly worthwhile causes and instead just buy more yachts.
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I think it’s coming — those want to stay ahead of the curve on class struggle public opinion are I think going to start investing in more marginalized art.
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it is weird that half the cities in the US have opera companies but movies are all commercial
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Medici Pope is the answer.
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