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    • vane@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      It’s not idea, it’s how art worked since ancient times. Artists were always sponsored by kings and noble people and this art is now in museums, somehow along the way we put art in hands of corporations, and money in hands of idiots and leave countries with nothing. We have countries with ministry of culture that posses no culture. We pay taxes and get nothing back.

      • Jarix@lemmy.world
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        7 hours ago

        They were patronized by them. and I do also mean in the “yes monkey do the thing I like you to do not the thing you want to do for my amusement” kind of patronizing a well

      • blarghly@lemmy.world
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        2 days ago

        We pay taxes and get nothing back.

        Tbf, this has been the rule, not the exception, for most of recorded history.