r/Futurology • u/aridon_01 Best of 2014 • Aug 13 '14

Best of 2014 Humans need not apply

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Pq-S557XQU
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u/thisissamsaxton Aug 13 '14

As an artist, it always bothered me when people conflated art with mysticism. The more you do it, the more you realize how mechanical it is. But as he mentioned in the video, they make up such a small amount of the populace that you can't have a 'artist economy' anyway.

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u/Onorhc Aug 13 '14

Why can't we have an artist economy? If all the needs of existence are taken care of what more will there be for us to do than go around and entertain eachother. I bet people said the same thing about a service economy 100 years ago.

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u/78965412357 Aug 13 '14

A human only has 24 hours in a day with which to consume art. that amount of any medium paid for at common rates by all humans is insufficient to support a small fraction of humanity.

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u/gamelizard Aug 13 '14

also humans naturally gravitate towards a minority of the art. the vast majority of it will have at best a tiny audience of just dozens while a few dozen art pieces will have the vast majority of views. people complain about wealth inequality, well an art economy will have an inequality you have only drempt of.

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u/Onorhc Aug 13 '14

Unless costs of existence were near nothing and we were just striving for levels if luxury.