“art is a luxury” is such a disgustingly capitalist concept. the need to make and engage with art, to have beauty and creation, is absolutely fundamental to humans. art should be a human right.
If art should be a human right, and you all deserve access, then all artists producing work should be getting paid. Whether by you the individual, or better yet, by monthly government disbursement that actually gives us enough to live, eat, and make art on. Because we cannot create in a fucking vacuum. You want a right to art? I’m good with it, but only on the terms that you LET ARTISTS FUCKING LIVE FIRST instead of starving us for your consumption.