In his 2023 book The Art Thief, author Michael Finkel makes the essential economic point that art consumes resources including time “without providing food, clothing or shelter.” Stop and think about that.
Art is what happens after our basic needs are taken care of. Or as Finkel puts it, “art is the result of facing almost no survival pressure at all.” Absolutely it is. What animates life doesn’t always provide the essentials without which there is no life. Art is a consequence of prosperity, not a producer of it.
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