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The other day I was on that @worldbuilders panel about capitalism & creativity & connection with brilliant mates @CaseyLucasQuaid @dreamwisp & I wanted to add something about art & economy, which is that ART IS A LARGE PART OF THE ECONOMY https://www.americansforthearts.org/by-program/reports-and-data/legislation-policy/naappd/arts-facts-arts-and-cultural-production-contribution-to-gdp-2017#:~:text=The%20arts%20and%20culture%20sector,U.S.%20Bureau%20of%20Economic%20Analysis.
That's right, even though the economic and political culture paints artists of all stripes as self-indulgent and unnecessary noodlers, the arts sector makes a large contribution to the economy as a whole IN ADDITION to what it does for people's well-being.
Let's talk about that well-being part. I saw a busker once in Buenos Aires with the sign IMAGINE A WORLD WITHOUT MUSIC. I put money in his hat.
I don't know about you, but authors and artists and filmmakers have been carrying me through the shutdowns.
I don't know about you, but authors and artists and filmmakers have been carrying me through the shutdowns.
I personally am a job creator. I make stories up out of nothing (besides decades of reading and writing practice and lots of thought and extreme amounts of typing) and those stories fuel jobs for editors, publicists, copy editors, illustrators, printers, proofreaders, reviewers..
OUT OF NOTHING. That, my friends, is economic development. That is the economy of ideas, Tesla McHyperloop. And my books inspire other people to write their own stories and maybe some fan art or someday a comic and also? lots of entertainment, thought, contentment.
So miss me with your takes on the "real economy", like it only counts if it puts the worker or the consumer in danger, if it makes someone miserable or requires an expensive suit or damages the environment. Forget the cultural conditioning and look at the data.
