Technology has, for better or worse, a long history of simultaneously democratizing and commoditizing things. Creative tools have gotten so easy to use that it’s starting to affect the monetary value of art.
It makes art production and consumption more accessible to the non-wealthy, this is very true.
But, and I know this is going to be controversial, but what if human creativity and/or human evaluations of creative works are just not as advanced or special as we would like to believe.
And what if, by making art production/appreciation more accessible, we’re less monetarily devaluing art as much as removing unnecessary exclusivity.
This is not to say I don’t think artists are valuable. I just think we muddy the whole concept of value by prioritising financial value and forcing people to produce financial value so they can live.
Technology has, for better or worse, a long history of simultaneously democratizing and commoditizing things. Creative tools have gotten so easy to use that it’s starting to affect the monetary value of art.
It makes art production and consumption more accessible to the non-wealthy, this is very true.
But, and I know this is going to be controversial, but what if human creativity and/or human evaluations of creative works are just not as advanced or special as we would like to believe.
And what if, by making art production/appreciation more accessible, we’re less monetarily devaluing art as much as removing unnecessary exclusivity.
This is not to say I don’t think artists are valuable. I just think we muddy the whole concept of value by prioritising financial value and forcing people to produce financial value so they can live.
something something Universal Basic Income