Arts
Jack and Zoe discuss the old trope of the starving artist. This idea is bound up in the development of commodified industrial capitalism. The art world today is divided between a small elite of bourgeois artists and a large class of economically precarious creatives, reflecting the class dynamics of capitalism at large. The most prominent artists create only for the wealthy capitalists' cycle of conspicuous consumption of ruinous decadence. Meanwhile, most of those with creative vision are sidelined by the intentionally vicious machinery of capitalism.