Originally Posted by JAPOV
"Be great if the government could give artists a stipen. nobody gets rich, nobody starves. Fantasy world I guess"........

I vehemently disagree! I believe the "powers that be" need to stop using "the media" to tell people what to believe and how to feel in this hyper-politically correct social environment that "they" engineered. We simply cannot all be the same...... and rebellion or disregard for traditional moral values is the easiest thing to teach a child.


The radio has been telling people what to believe and what to like since it started, so has TV and now the internet, to varying degrees.

All I simply said was a wishful, want for artists to be paid for their work as a job in other words, as opposed to being business men.

In China and other Asian countries Doctors are paid by the government, to keep people healthy. They get paid to practice the art of medicine to help people. Imagine a world where artists could do the same thing. I know its far fetched, but it was only an alternative to making music a dog eat dog business, where some artists have to write and record stuff they dont want to, but do so because it sells. In my vision artists/engineers/producers get paid the same way as doctors in asia. If they keep people happy and listening, they get paid.

I dont believe in socialism im just leery about capitalism when it comes to art, love it for just about everything else.

I realize taking the business out of music takes away from capitalism, but what happens is alot of great music gets swept under the rug, or not even made because the artist has to pay the bills. And other artists never get noticed because they dont make music that makes money.

Last edited by Fdemetrio; 07/09/19 09:33 AM.