• aleq@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    ‘artists’ (usually rich)

    I know think you’re trolling, but…

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      3 months ago

      Not trolling at all. I used to hang around an art school when I was a teenager, the vast majority of those kids came from pretty well off families. The small percentage that were of a more working class background were there to get into graphic design or the-like in college, so they didn’t end up being artists.

      A quick web search gives that only 8% of artists are working class in the UK which is a wealthy country, I’d bet the percentage goes down in poorer ones.