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Why are techies so averse to funding the arts?
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this post was submitted on 03 Jul 2023
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I like that this question is generating resoonses.
My opinion, as a "techie" (although not even close to rich one) with a lot of aritists among friens, is that the resson is the same as to why artists don't contribute to open source software.
We don't have the knowledge to understand it, and my feeling is that most art is created for other artists. Whenever I go to some new exhibition, it is utterly borring if none of my educated artist friends are not with me to explain me why is something interesting and how. Also, why something else is utterly shit.
Artist world is not doing nearly enough to educate non artists and help us understand what is being created.
Also, looks like you don't count games, music, movies and who knows what else as art.
If we are counting video games as art, then there have been plenty of rich techies over the past 2 decades who have spent millions out of pocket trying to create their own version of "The Next World of Warcraft Plus Call of Duty Except Better".
We don't usually hear about video games funded and created by rich tech people though, because their game projects rarely make it to launch (due to the fact that video game development is actually much more challenging than it looks).
As any other art. Not every painting is good art, not every paining deserves admiring.
Mozart was just good entertainer for the rich people, but we consider him great artist now (as we should), I don't see difference with games.
Problem is that some artists would like to be paid to make stuff only they (and their small community) likes.
While I agree that kind of art should exist, and we should have society in which it is possible... I do think it can not be a rule.
I have stuff I like to do and think those are more important for society than my actual work, but I know no one want to pay for it.