In These Times: Though Scott Timberg’s impassioned Culture Crash: The Killing of the Creative Class focuses on the struggles of musicians, writers and designers, it’s not just a story about (the impossibility of) making a living making art in modern America. More urgently, it’s another chapter in America’s central economic story today, of plutocracy versus penury and the evisceration of the middle class.
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This article has one point that strikes me very true, “Timberg describes the career of a record-store clerk whose passion eventually led him to jobs as a radio DJ and a music consultant for TV. His retail job offered a “ladder into the industry” that no longer exists. Today, in almost all creative industries, the rungs of that ladder have been replaced with unpaid internships, typically out of reach to all but the children of the bourgeoisie.” This is why I believe the traditional american dream has died. There used to be an ideology about America that if you worked hard enough from the bottom of everything, you could make it big. But that simply isn’t true any more. Connections are everything in success nowadays, and you typically need money to get or already have them from family members who got them from other family or friends etc. etc. Overall, yes, being an artist in this economy is near impossible without also having a professional skill.
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