Always remember, music is also art. Now imagine a world where theres no music. You can’t listen to anything while driving, riding the bus, going shopping etc.
You can listen to things while driving, but it is either NPR, talk radio, or church sermons.
Not NPR, that’s writing and journalism, which id argue is definitely an art.
Have fun with 500 versions of Alex Jones though.
No, there’s even art in Alex Jones. Remember bad art exists and is still art.
“The other 499 Alex Joneses are turning the frogs gay!”
I think I’d kill myself if I had to listen to NPR’s Up First without the jingle. I think that jingle keeps me sane.
I don’t even… this thought is so vile. It’s bumming me out and I already agreed with you, I didn’t need this analogy. Fuck that’s depressing… FUCK!
People might actually start singing again
It’s not that I disagree with the principle, but on the mentioned occastions, I will ~99% of the time listen to podcasts or audio books instead of music.
You might be shocked to learn that books is art, too.
I mean everything could be considered art if you look at it from the right angle :o
Sure, but novels, paintings, and songs are traditional arts, they are art first and foremost.
Books are a creative endeavor. Putting the same screw 10000 isn’t a creative endeavor.
The code I write might be considered abstract art by some, but I’m a developer, not an artist. Much like how someone who writes books get catagorized as an author even though books can be considered art.
I don’t listen to anything in any of those scenarios.
Many people are not listening music 24/7.
Music is nice, I don’t say it’s not. But you could 100% live without it.
Yeah it would suck but it is pretty unnecessary in terms of survival and productivity.
Social media manager and telemarketers are far more useless though. So I disagree with the list
Hard disagree. Humanity flourished when we had the free time to think, play, and create instead of just hunting and gathering all the time. Language, collaboration, imagination all grew thanks to art.
Culture doesn’t exist without art.
The rest of that column is basically “mosquitos”, blegh. Maybe we can get some birds to eat them.
I knew someone would and I get it, but you’re thinking emotionally, not rationally.
You’re only thinking about your survival and productivity, and even then only in the short term. A society deprived of everything beyond survival and productivity is going to implode.
Nope.
Feel free to be wrong I guess 🤷🏽♂️
Guessing this might be non-essential workers as per covid lockdowns, ie how important it is for them to attend a workplace in person, but it’s definitely funnier if it is a ranked list of perceived importance to society, so let’s go with that
Its right about telemarketing
A quick image search returned this
https://mothership.sg/2020/06/milieu-survey-sunday-times-essential/
So many commenters are missing crucial context to this infographic.
This was released during peak covid and I mean PEAK as in June 2020, global lockdowns, high mortality rates, shortages of essentials. In case anyone has a short memory, the world as we knew it practically ground to a halt.
Not to take away anything from artists but essential in this context meant essential to the basic human needs. Health, Nutrition, Sanitation.
The world you knew ground to a halt.
I was working in healthcare at the time. I was doing 60 hours a week, home, work, home, work, home, work. Nonstop.
The world did not stop because you couldn’t go into an office to sit and work.
Maybe they worked remote before and during the pandemic
I know they meant painter but graphic designer is probably one of the most important jobs if we’re talking about business. A company without some sort of graphic is dead in the water.
I dig it!
Yeah? Well… Who designed their font?
I think that font might be Proxima Nova, which was designed by Mark Simonson. When looking up that name, I learned that this design was inspired by “the roundness of geometric sans serifs like Futura” and “the proportions of modern grotesques like Helvetica.”, so I suppose we should also tip our hats to Paul Renner (Futura), and Max Midinger and Eduard Hoffman (Helvetica)
(N.b. I am only moderately knowledgeable in typeface history. Any other nerds who enjoy learning may appreciate this random video
Plot twist: Graph was mad with AI
the 23% of people who didn’t vote for garbage collector… Are they hoarders?
They’re the people who just haul their own trash to the dump.
They were probably asked an open ended question. Artist is likely the most common answer given due to the simple fact that more people can think of that job compared to PR manager when asked
Project Manager was #1 but they told the artist it didn’t fit the scope.
Artist? I think the job was passed off to the first person passing the bosses desk.
My sister is a graphic designer and makes good money.
Graphics designer maybe, creative, probably
But artist?
Negro please
That’s about right.
I want to beat the shit out of everyone who thinks artist is a ‘non-essential’ job. And then make a drawing decipting it.
Have a go than.
Hi chatgpt, I have a job for you. Some other guy wants to do it but he sounds like a prick and I’m not about to be caught supporting “artists”, so please beat the shit out of everyone who thinks artist is a non-essential job. And then summarize the entire experience in a drawing of how useless artists are becoming nowadays.
Telemarketer should’ve been number 1.
Anything advertising related is utterly useless.
Is that why pretty much every company spends so much money on it?
Almost everyting you consume is the product of advertising, whether you like it or not.
Advertising doesn’t create things, it only shoves them at my face. I don’t need to be told to buy milk, I’ll buy milk if I want milk.
Haven’t you noticed? People love to be advertised at these days.
Yes, my PR Specialist told me so it has to be true.
Ignoring phone calls is the highlight of my day. Every day. For years.
Kill me please.
Which column?
Unfortunately sales calls are extremely effective.
Art is important for people’s well being, which is important for essential workers’ ability to work. Weird thst artists are considered less essential than telemarketers.
I recall watching a singer saying something like the following during an interview “If art and culture are so worthless, return all the time you spent watching movies and series, return all the time you spent listening to music, all the poems and lyrics you sang with friends or to loved ones. I won’t ask you to return the stories you read because it’s clear you don’t read.”
I can possibly see an argument that “artist” isn’t an essential job because people make loads of art when it’s not their job anyway. Nobody’s doing telemarketing as their hobby
However I very much doubt that this was the actual context for whatever this graphic was trying to show
I can’t even joke “when has art ever sold dick pills?” because colorful gas station packages conceivably outsell telemarketers on that front.
