Neocities

2 months ago

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adornesibley 2 months ago

I agree that art is not rare, nor should be. It should be common & plentiful. Everyone should be able to make & express through art. Those who want to make art their full time gig should be able to get paid but… access to art is more important to me than getting my cut of a cut. The value of what's made is not in its ability to be capital, but its power to change us in ways we never could've anticipated.

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adornesibley 2 months ago

The need for companies to have bodies in their buildings feels like simple control, rather than necessity. We could probably cut fuel emissions across the world by a significant margin if we let folks work from home who really had no reason to be in an office environment. Also the amount of E-waste that could be saved from duplicate computers & the companies constantly cycling through them to use up their budget---

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adornesibley 2 months ago

would bring tears to my eyes, surely. Please enjoy your staycation, create wonderful things, and don't lock yourself out again. *crossing fingers for you*

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oopsiedoodle 2 months ago

I would add that human expression itself is valuable, regardless of whether one is changed for experiencing it. We’re each only here once (at least I believe so), so every person’s existence is rare, and therefore the art that an individual creates is intrinsically valuable regardless of whether anyone ever pays for it.

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zazilicious 2 months ago

I somewhat agree but with a key caveat. I think that while art as a product is not rare, each individual piece of art is rare in that it is unqiuely representative of the artist who produced it at that time and under those specific conditions. A Taylor Swift some is rare not because people all over the world are not making music, but is rare because there is only one song that was made by Taylor Swift under (cont.)

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zazilicious 2 months ago

(cont) the conditions that this particular song was made under. Of course, this is not just true of the ultra wealthy, and I think all art, from whoever produces it, and however much I enjoy it, is valuable in this way. Because of this, art is incredibly rare as each instance of a piece of art is unique in its existence and expression. I would then also argue that each person's unique experience with that (cont.)

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zazilicious 2 months ago

(cont) art is uniquely and equally valuable. My experience and unqiue consumption of a Taylor Swift song is equally rare and important in my opinion.

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shishka updated shishka

2 months ago