Sojaro: gotta return to when stupidly wealthy people would just keep their favorite creatives on retainer to churn out art as a status symbol.

did you know there used to be writers where that was their whole job

gotta return to when stupidly wealthy people would just keep their favorite creatives on retainer to churn out art as a status symbol.

This. The wealthy do stupid shit that lasts like a few hours like take trips to space or the Titanic or whatever. That money could put an artist on retainer for a decade or more.

I’m ready for my wealthy patron

It's even worse. Jeff Bezos spent $5.5 billion to go to space for four minutes with William Shatner. He could have, instead, funded 2,750 creative artists for 40 years at a salary of $50,000 each. www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/j....

Jeff Bezos Just Spent $5.5B to Be in Space for 4 Minutes. Here Are 7 Things That Money Could Help Solve.www.globalcitizen.org Jeff Bezos, the richest man on Earth, had his “best day ever” in space. Here’s how he could help others have better days.

Imagine instead the timeline where he commissioned authors to write epic poems about how he is the direct line descendant of a Greek god or something normal.

Well, he used to be married to a novelist, but she clearly knew better than to get roped into that kind of nonsense.

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