I disagree with you in many points
>[...]are food (easy to produce yourself, actually), company and shelter.
Luxuries are just that, luxuries. Not everybody seems to think so,
though. [...]
So Art is Luxury too.
>You are using a market argument
Ofc I am, The original point was about "Financial Struggle of an artist"
> people who have joined the market to gather excess profits from it are
among the most destructive forces of our realm. Profits and money, after
all, are being produced at the cost of limited, natural resources. And
when you are successful on the market, you are able to spend so much
more than you need to. You make the final breath of our [...]
jeez we all know Capitalism and growth for the sake of growth is cancer
But thats not the point we are talking about here i feel you are just trying to make a point were no one can say "you are wrong"
The few of us who can actually live their dream are extremely lucky or extremely Privileged, case and point is we are talking about the majority.
e.g. I want to be an author and or Voice actor, the world we are living in what ever you want to call it (Capitalism) will not grant me that wish by just me starting to write books and living a "good" life, so I have work somewhere else aswell as trying to fulfill my dreams.
>humanity have shifted towards ultimate comfort and ease of life
The problem is that we are too many humans on a planet too small, we now have to have thing we wouldnt actually need, like sewage system i mean could all get schwifty and shit on the floor.
>going from pointless garbage
Like Science? Like Exploring Planets? Like finding reason in things we cant explain?
Rather have religion?
>I am still a believer in evolution
if thats the case you would believe in adaption aswell, which as it seems you aren't.
>towards beautification
how am i supposed to say anything to something that is so vague?