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Originally Posted by cfrizz
‘I have no private income, no rich wife, no inheritance, no pension. There’s no safety net at all’: Rupert Thomson'
Really and this is whose fault? Anyone with a brain knows that if you are in the arts you damn well better have a day job and be putting money away for a rainy day because you won't be able to survive forever on your art.
Times have changed and the writing was on the wall WAAAY before 2007, if he or anyone else chose to ignore it that is on them.
Sorry, but I have no patience for this kind of ignorant, stubborn, stupidity.
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+100.
I mean--who amongst us DOES? (Have a private income, a rich spouse, an inheritance or a pension?). What a load of old bollox. I despise this level of arrogance, that because one is "in the arts," that somehow, what's being done is nobler than we sloggers just living lives of quiet desperation doing everyday things. ALL of us have "day jobs," it's just that most of us don't delude ourselves that whatever it is we're doing is so bloody wonderful that the world should collapse at our feet and shower us with money.
The percentage of writers or other
artistes who SHOULD be showered with critical lauds and money hasn't changed. I was irked when I read poor Thomson's whine that he's going to have to give up his RENTED OFFICE and write from his
garrett. Oh, The Humanity! What's wrong, did the kitchen table collapse? No living room, bedroom? That's the worst thing that's happened to him? He could apparently afford to hire a builder to renovate his garrett.
Sorry, but for those of us who are STUCK down here with the rest of the plebians, earning a living, like every other working slob, this type of whingeing just makes teeth grind.
On the other hand, the article's information about Jaron Lanier? Yeah. Too little, too late, Lanier. You and your ilk have already done the damage. Welcome to the fallout. Wonder how brilliant your wiped-out friends think you are NOW?
Hitch