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<blockquote data-quote="henschman" data-source="post: 2088735" data-attributes="member: 4235">lol at the idea that if the government doesn&#039;t subsidize some part of the market, it will cease to exist.In a capitalist system, its existence will be determined by how much value people place on it, as determined by how much of the product of their own labor they are willing to voluntarily expend for it; rather than how much of their neighbors&#039; wealth they are willing to take from them with force to support it, as happens under our current kleptocratic system.&nbsp; The moral distinction should be obvious, as should the system which provides the more efficient allocation of resources.&nbsp; Purely as a matter of culture, I think that the whole notion of &quot;gubmint art&quot; is obscene.&nbsp; And having the patronage of the arts be determined the way bureaucrats allocate funding has a degrading, rather than an uplifting influence on culture.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="henschman, post: 2088735, member: 4235"] lol at the idea that if the government doesn't subsidize some part of the market, it will cease to exist. In a capitalist system, its existence will be determined by how much value people place on it, as determined by how much of the product of their own labor they are willing to voluntarily expend for it; rather than how much of their neighbors' wealth they are willing to take from them with force to support it, as happens under our current kleptocratic system. The moral distinction should be obvious, as should the system which provides the more efficient allocation of resources. Purely as a matter of culture, I think that the whole notion of "gubmint art" is obscene. And having the patronage of the arts be determined the way bureaucrats allocate funding has a degrading, rather than an uplifting influence on culture. [/QUOTE]

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