Grappler Truth Teller Feller wrote on Sep 11
th, 2023 at 6:49pm:
"You of course can't contemplate the concept of useful work which is non market based"..
What nonsense... I understand fully the value of REAL art,
Now you are confusedly conflating topics; Frank and I were arguing culture (and art), based in time and place, versus transcendent art which transcends a given culture (eg the Devils Marbles (apparently sacred to black culture) or the Sistine Chapel (sacred to the Catholic Church) which the cultural fundamentalists demand we 'respect' according to their rules; and you - incomprehending or deliberately - are trying to change the topic from your inability to accept the value of non-market based USEFUL work, whether it is 'artistic' or not.
Quote:and have spent some time on the barricades as a professional actor myself so I know full well the value of 'non market based' work.... clearly you don't know what it is other than some theoretical (gasps) social construct.... and you've never once been there for real......
Of course most cannot be artists or actors of the calibre capable of attracting public admiration,
whereas we all have some capacity for useful work, whether in the market or non-market economy.
That's why government needs to fund
non-market- economy work, to get rid of the socially destructive and expensive
welfare/poverty industry, which wastes resources on prisons and crime and ill health associated with poverty.
Quote:Michelangelo painted the Cistine Chapel (Mickie! when are you gonna finish?) for lodging and meals and a bit of spending money.... not some huge commission rate....
True, unlike a boring shop-keeper like Bezos who in the modern world became wealthier than many entire countries...that's sick mainstream economics for you. (Jagger is an example of a musician who did very well financially, on the back of access to the global market).
Quote:Now then - about the TRUE value of those 'archeological' searches (not digs etc) in Aboland
way out west ....
..... (breaks into song) .....VOICE - the Musical ................ (where the rain don't fall, got a job with a uni group that don't dig at all... and I ain't gonna leave, money's good when bludging on the la-and...)....
..... so... errr... what do you bunch of girls in them white man's boats do? Oh, we check on the Reef..... livin' an' a-workin' on the sea, you know... well, what special skills did you bring to the job.... well - they had to teach us .... any unemployed kid of any colour in this area of shortage of jobs could do it and love the work.... but they reserved it for Abos.... oppressed species, you know....
What about you, Jackie-Jackie at the bar there? ... Oh, I'm a ranger at Mount Warning.... What? But there are no tourists etc.... it's blocked off...... Yeah - easy money that, eh?
.. Livin' and a bummin' off the lend.....
Mainly a confused rant: research via archeology, to discover history, has a place. Get back to the topic: eradicating the poverty/welfare industry, to close the gap.
Are you ready to contemplate the concept of publically funded, useful, non-('invisible hand') market-based work yet?
It will save the nation a fortune, AND close the gap.