@Kagekokoro @lanodan Sure, why not: You're wrong because commercialisation is only as old as commercialism. If you want an overview of the historical relationship between art and provision, it was only really under mercantilism that art started to become a matter of needing wealthy patrons to be sustainable.

In the medieval world and prior, art was a matter of the everyday (well, when it wasn't being repressed lol.) A bard or a minstrel could make a living travelling around, for example. In a world with no recording and no printing, there was a value to the individual.

If you want to go further back, life seems to have been pretty fucking good for artists in the classical era, doesn't it?

I don't think you really made a point, I think you just saw anticapitalist words and shat out a "human nature" nugget, which is why I called it a fedpost lol