@pleaseclap @notroot @exception Some kinds of art *can't* exist without money behind them, b/c they require teams of people making significant time commitments: e.g. theatre, opera, chamber orchestra, movies, TV drama, animation, computer games. (Amateur/individual instances of the last four exist, eg. single author computer games, but most people seem to prefer big budget productions.) Others are intermediate: novels can be done solo but are improved by a production team (editors/proofreaders).