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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
Do you think "encouraging creativity" is only good for bragging rights? Creativity is intended to provide society a new creation, for the betterment of society, and that is considered to be an (ultimately) economic benefit.
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Only if you take the value that there is no inherent value in the arts and creative disciplines. Equating the betterment of society with purely economic aims is... very American (no offence, but it is).
Certainly not in English society at the time of the Statute of Anne.