Ursula Le Guin: “A child free from the guilt of ownership and the burden of economic competition will grow up with the will to do what needs doing and the capacity for joy in doing it. It is useless work that darkens the heart. The delight of the nursing mother, of the scholar, of the successful hunter, of the good cook, of the skilful maker, of anyone doing needed work and doing it well, - this durable joy is perhaps the deepest source of human affection and of sociality as a whole.”

@spencerbeswick So, fund them, Ursula. We can provide a list of excellent starving musicians, for starters. Do they not count? The hunter, after all, has a blessed, glorious, more important than human life, gun. Perhaps if musicians all packed heat we'd make a buck after performing for 4 1/2 hours in some bar for drunks requesting the same song over & over, then barfing on our equipment.

Music is all cost, no income. Even artists on canvas do tremendously better, so why not start there?

Werdz.

@steter @spencerbeswick if you are suggesting that society should provide a source of income to all these people, not necessarily lavish, it can be basic, and perhaps it should extend beyond just musicians and artists, to being universal, then I agree.