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CanSocDem

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15. I've never been a fan of the "profit" motive.

Wed Dec 21, 2011, 01:48 PM

Dec 2011

But I get your drift. IMHO everybody should be able to live a good life ("earn a living)", which would free people to express 'creative' solutions not tied to the marketplace.

"...can a painter do the same?"

Speaking for myself, I always keep on the 'backshelf', the knowledge that if all else fails, I can always go down to the street corner and draw pen&ink caricatures for $5/pop.

Hopefully, as the culture, as we've known it, dissolves and with it our relevance, it might retain a memory or an artifact from the past and give us one last advantage.

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