I wish rich people went back to keeping artists as pets. Like when you’re wealthy enough you pick a cool weirdo to do regular commissions for you, and if you really want to flex on your peers, you’ve got several.
And you visit them every once in a while like “hello, I’ve paid for your rent and your tools, have you worked on that commission giant oil painting of me getting sucked off by my political opponent, who is unfortunately still the mayor of this town, like I requested?”
And your favourite feral art person looks up - mouth full of gravel and completely surrounded by art-related trash like “no, but I designed a helicopter.”
And you’re like “that’s fucking lit, the mayor doesn’t have a helicopter. Please carry on as you have.”
I wanna hang out with a stupid rich boy and have him be like “Hey write a story about how cool I am” and then I go “Sure John that’ll be a hundred thousand dollars.” and he’s like “Yeah.” and then I secretly make fun of him the whole time but he never picks up on it because his mom never let him look up the word parody
I’m so many levels of here for this