Any reasonable and good government would have social safety nets for everyone so you don’t need to fear new tech and endowments/funding for human art.

That's the problem: we're nowhere near there. In the meantime, knee-jerk hostility toward artists (and writers, and teachers, and lawyers, and so on and so on) as "entitled aristocrats" and so on, cheering on their precarious situation in the face of such technology harnessed unchecked by unmitigated predatory capitalism, is still a thing on Hexbear for some "fuck you, got mine" types. :sadness: