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No puppies were harmed in this analogy (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
submitted 3 months ago by Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/whitepeopletwitter@sh.itjust.works
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Alt text: a post from @lolennui.bsky.social that says: Once my German friend asked what creative people do without arts grants and other support in the US and I felt like a parent trying to explain to their kid that the puppies can die sometimes

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[–] sundray@lemmus.org 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

If you have some free time and aren't easily depressed, go ahead and look up the backgrounds of your favorite, recently ascendant artists. Many, if not most of them come from privileged backgrounds, have wealthy spouses, trust funds, or familial industry connections.

And while I personally don't think that such advantages necessarily diminish the importance of their art, just think of how much more potentially moving and profound work we'll never see just because the people who should be making it never got chance to develop, since they've been too busy just trying to keep a roof over their heads.

[–] Mac@mander.xyz 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I've thought this for a long time about other things. it's truly a shame.

[–] Master@lemm.ee 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

We could have cured cancer years ago but the scientist grew up poor and ended up working the graveyard shifts in the mines.

[–] CodexArcanum@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.

~ Stephen Jay Gould