[finexplained]

Sure, but we actually provide business value and our toolset is applicable to a broad set of problems.

[trevorboaconstr]

^And both are equally insufferable in their perceived self importance to the world.

Too bad I’m not a Roman Emperor, or else I’d host weekly public bouts where I’d pit them against one another in a fight to the death.

[pcwalton]

Obviously artists provide business value. That's why there is such a thing as the entertainment industry.

[finexplained]

The distribution is different. The median programmer provides much more value than the median artist. Additionally math/cs skills apply much more broadly than art skills. The entertainment industry would be much less leveraged without the tools we built for them.

[hnzix]

The median programmer provides much more value than the median artist.

An economy is not a society. There is more to the human experience than "number goes up".

[PurpleRamen]

Depends on whom you ask.