....NANCY PELOSI: Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer or a writer without worrying about keeping their day job in order to have health insurance....
I so hate this meme.
I am an artist. More correctly, I am a limited production craftsperson. I have invented, developed and marketed my products for over 40 years. I earn a living. I have purchased my own health insurance except for a few years when a spouse had corporate-provided family insurance, back in the 1970s.
My walls are decorated with my 2-D work from 35 years ago. It still gets praise. I know it will not support me. But my functional products will and have.
Creative people should be instinctive capitalists. I do not understand why they are not. I went to the same classes they did and did not turn into a socialist. I was liberal for a while, but never a socialist.
A functioning brain, some skills, a good pair of trained hands: these are the means of production. When I say this in artistic venues, many people look blank. When I say it craft venues, everyone nods agreement.