Comment by Legend2440
4 hours ago
Cool, but if you can afford to hire an illustrator to make a custom dashboard for your lights and thermostat, you're clearly in the 1%.
4 hours ago
Cool, but if you can afford to hire an illustrator to make a custom dashboard for your lights and thermostat, you're clearly in the 1%.
$900 for digital art isn't exactly cheap, but you sure as hell don't need to be pull a $750K salary to afford it.
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I've commissioned art before via the Krita web forum's job section. Lots of bright young artists, many of them students, that do great work for affordable prices to build their portfolios.
You don't really need to be in the 1% to be a patron if you need some art.
Disposable income and being in the 1% are entirely different things.
How much do you they think they paid? By home improvement standards, might not be out of line at all.
I agree it just feels weird to spend on “software” for home improvement, but sometimes it may make a bigger difference than the hardware!
Ever buy any pictures or posters for your wall? Same thing.
I don’t think I’ve ever spent more than…$30 a piece for posters vs $900 for this commission.
You say it like it’s a bad thing?
I'm not sure what that is supposed to convey. This person was able to scrape together a couple bucks to pay someone to draw a picture of their house in a specific way. You've never paid for any art or entertainment? Netflix?
And?
Its $100 at most. Thats something majority of people can afford.
*$900, and no, the average person can’t afford $900 for bespoke art (or more likely, has no interest in paying $900 for one). Heck, I don’t see how you can look at the explosion of AI art online and not come to the conclusion the average person would much rather have the same for near free than paying hundreds of dollars. To me, that’s a pretty obvious revealed preference.