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In reply to the discussion: Should artists be paid a living wage? [View all]Egalitarian Thug
(12,448 posts)or would work, beautifully. Unfortunately, like every other system created by great thinkers, it has yet to be implemented. He wrote fairly extensively on what is required for his idea to work and the two most important and ignored parts were, to use modern terminology, that there must be an inviolable safety net (I think of it as a floor rather than a net) and to prevent excessive accumulation of the wealth that that the system inevitably creates. Capitalism is the means to achieving an egalitarian society, I see no other system that can do it as well.
I'm not advocating a special status for artists, I advocate the abolition of deprivation in the U.S. now in the knowledge that it will spread throughout the world just as it began to 200+ years ago. A model based on willing cooperation rather than coercion.
If I can even remember any longer the original question was "should artists be paid a living wage?" & my reply was "sure, just like everybody else".