@ChuckCheesman

""Real artists, musicians, and writers aren't valued in society. Arts, music, and literature programs are cut from our schools unless you live in a wealthy school district"."

Don't these two sentences seem at least a little contradictory to you? If wealthy people pay for such programs for their kids...surely they value them.

@ChuckCheesman

My point is simply that the very fact that people can and do pay for these things is pretty strong evidence that they are valuable. People rarely voluntarily buy that which they do not value.

"Also, in the mainstream marketplace artists aren’t valued as they once were."

As measured how?

@ChuckCheesman

So your evidence is mostly anecdotal? To be clear, there's nothing necessarily wrong with that, I'm just making sure I understand your claims and the basis behind them.