@anubis2814@friendica.myportal.social
2026-09-28 19:25 UTC
@susankayequinn@wandering.shop Ideally we should follow the old british model where artists would get paid a stipend just to art. Its why the British invasion was possible
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@susankayequinn@wandering.shop 2026-09-28 19:41
@anubis2814 I'm fully on board with stipends specifically for art (the Irish are doing this) and more funding of arts in general, as well as general UBI and universal healthcare to give people freedom, but we also need to interrogate the idea that art is always supposed to be free and have better mechanisms for funding the art/entertainment so people can make a living from it I was just this morning talking to an audiobook narrator friend who's losing business because of AI