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bijan@bijan.bsky.social |
all the culture you liked from decades past was made possible by cheap rent and artists' pay keeping up with what things cost
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Comic
@thatonecomicguy.bsky.social
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It's almost like we had a WHOLE strike about this and then it turned out none of it mattered anyways.
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Silly Rookie
@sillyrookie.bsky.social
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Soyweiser
@soyweiser.bsky.social
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Also cocaine and a faithful wive doing all the menial tasks. Wait, no that was just Stephen King.
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Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein
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When Lovecraft was living in New York City in 1925, his rent was $40 a month. Typical pulp rates were half-a-cent to 2-cents per word; WEIRD TALES maxed out at 1 cent/word. HPL could have theoretically paid his rent selling one 4,000-word story a month. (Although payments were often delayed.)
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Michael Bischoff
@mpbmke.bsky.social
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They gentrified all the artists' enclaves, then gentrified the *idea* of artists' enclaves.
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Anxiety Prime
@anxietyprime.bsky.social
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I theoretically have all the time in the world to write now I'm on long term sickness benefits due to my mental health, but I now get to live in fear that successfully getting published and paid would classify me as mentally fit to work in the traditional sense and completely ruin my life
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Carl Nyberg
@carlnyberg312.bsky.social
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If you want the United States to produce art, maybe cut spending on military, police, intelligence and prisons and put that money into housing & healthcare.
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Mike Isaacson
@vulgareconomics.bsky.social
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Also not being beset by long COVID helps
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HeyItsDuplex
@heyitsduplex.bsky.social
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It is no coincidence that the Renaissance, one of the most revolutionary and beloved eras in the history of art, happened to also be a time where artists were respected and saught after by elites who respected their craft and paid an amazing amount for their work
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Val
@jambalayaval.bsky.social
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There are still some writers out there publishing multiple books a year (other than James Patterson), but they're self-published and – to be quite objective about it – a lot of their stuff is a waste of trees that only their hardcore fans like anyway. I don't think they're making a lot of money...
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Moderately Grouchy
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Word counts have gone up faster than inflation since the 70s, and in my opinion that has been a uniformly negative trend. Especially you, Neal Stephenson. What happened to you in 1999?
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Tom
@schrtm.bsky.social
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And usually male writers relied on family or their spouse to do chores. If I didn't have to cook, clean and raise kids, I'd also have enough time to write a novel each year.
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Xanna
@xanainternet.bsky.social
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And wages making anyone able to buy anything
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Tycho Softworks
@tychosoft.bsky.social
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A cruel culture and society that has no compassion or ability to care for others, that believes greed is good and the disabled are defectives, also has little interest in fiction. There were few free artists or works of fiction written during Nazi Germany, too.
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Filigree Needlequeen of the Desert
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This would depress me more, but I walked away from the game. My non-art dayjob pays for my art. It was the only way for me.
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Will "scifantasy" Frank
@scifantasy.bsky.social
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Oh that's why my commentary downthread of this is getting likes now.
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Phil Edwards
@philedwards.bsky.social
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Roald Dahl's biography goes "met a magazine editor at a party, sent him a story, he bought it enabling me to take the rest of the month off, I wrote another, the editor liked that one too, I gave up the day job and never looked back".
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Dueledge
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I remember someone saying something similar about why the early 2000s had so many webcomics - because people could have a hobby that wasn't profitable.
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Molten Berle
@moltenberle.bsky.social
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It was also made possible by most “good” art coming from privileged upper middle class white men. See: Thoreau writing about the purity of nature while living for free and having his mother come out to do his laundry for him.
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Sacha (she/her) 🍉
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Another reason for UBI.
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molly ✨
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i think abt this a lot in context of nightlife/venues: impossibly high rents have forced so many spots out which is often fatal to the scenes those venues hosted :(
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Philip Eagle
@philegal.bsky.social
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And also by unemployment benefit and student maintenance grants.
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@ianbobmorris.bsky.social
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YIMBYism to make it easier for people to do creative works
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Anagram Doe
@anagramdoe.bsky.social
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also cocaine was helping write a lot of novels being cranked out in the 70s and 80s
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peecee2
@therealpeecee2.bsky.social
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Also now competing with decades of previous material that's all readily available and has already been sifted for quality, the same as other mediums like music, TV, film, etc.
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Greg Andraste Sideyr
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had to explain this to my mom the other day....
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Kit
@kitflowers.bsky.social
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Also (in some places) lower cost of going into art programs and acting - I'm specifically thinking of the UK systems but it applies (sorta) with US student loans, where someone COULD pay their tuition while working. They absolutely CANNOT now, even with a full-time job.
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Lucretius Bourgeois
@maviscruet.bsky.social
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Also some of them had jobs and a few were not in need of jobs. I don't think there's a really extensive list of working class authors. Though it's not something I've looked into, so I could be wrong.
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Chris in SF
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The dirty “secret” of Western literature is that it was disproportionately written by white males who had the time to do so: which means, already plenty of money available. What kind of person had the education and time to write in the 1700s? This problem goes back centuries.
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