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“I’m fulfilling my artistic goals,” Ms. Klein said.

....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....

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

A few years back, HUD built a regular Utopia for them in Jackson Michigan. They call it an "art colony" but what it really is, is low income housing for drug addicts and and lazy bastards with crayons.

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.