[kelnos]

> all those billions of dollars of tech money and you cannot find a way to house and support artists.

Our problem is never that we don't have enough wealth, it's always that it's concentrated among a small percentage of the population, and a much larger percentage gets starved out entirely.

> New York billionaires have always found a way to support artistic endeavors. Case in point - Bloomberg, he personally donated a lot.

If we have to depend on the charity of billionaires, we've already lost the war.

[closeparen]

Concentrated wealth sponsors high culture. There is extremely limited political will for public funding, and distributed personal spending decisions give you mass culture. You are not getting painters without people who spend tens of thousands on paintings. You are not getting the theater or the symphony or the opera without a class of attendees who write checks for hundreds of times more than a ticket is worth.

[sharadov]

I could not agree more!