At 22:29 19/11/2012, REH wrote:
Not if you were an artist. It's always been like today for us.
REH
Not so. Whenever there has been economic
prosperity, artists have always benefited, more
often than not disproportionately. Until 2008
most modern art (that is, rubbish) was being sold
at outrageous prices as status objects for the
rich. Since then prices have come down steeply at
auctions (and much of it is unsaleable). The same
applies in different ways to the other arts.
All the arts were at their zenith around a
century ago when they'd all become pretty fully
developed technologies after centuries of
brilliant endeavours by creative geniuses. The
only exception to all this is architecture, which
is still developing, but here we have the
continuing supply of brand-new materials with new structural properties.
Keith
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The period from aprx. 1950 to 1975 was indeed a
golden age. Easy to get jobs and
promotions. Not too difficult to buy a nice
house and even put a full-sized pool in the
backyard so that you and the kids could have a
swim. Not at all like that now. People in the
public service anxiously wondering if they'll
keep their jobs. I know a couple of people on whom the axe has already fallen.
Ed
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You Can't Go Home Again the novel by Thomas Wolfe
The time that Krugman describes is a time when a
breadwinner in the family could support mate and
many kids, still afford a new car from time to
time and could afford to buy a new (tract)
house. I am describing my late father in
law. Was a middle income worker at National
Defence yet managed to live reasonably well on one salary. Try that today.
arthur
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Krugman on then and now:
<http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/19/opinion/krugman-the-twinkie-manifesto.html?ref=opinion&_r=0>http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/19/opinion/krugman-the-twinkie-manifesto.html?ref=opinion&_r=0
Ed
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