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by Suppafly 399 days ago
>Painter used to be a trade where you could sell your painting skills as, well, a skill applicable for other than purely aesthetic reasons, simply because there were no other ways to document the world around you.

Source? If anything I suspect there are more people making a living as painters now than at any point in history.

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As a proportion of the population?