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Re:YouTube top earners: A seven-year-old making $22M by pjc50 on Tuesday December 04, 2018 @05:58AM (#18598257)
You'd be surprised. There's a reason there's a band called UB40. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/dole-queue-blues-that-gav...

(not "government funded" in the grant sense, but the old UK unemployment benefit worked a lot more like a basic income)

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Re:YouTube top earners: A seven-year-old making $22M by WalterBright on Tuesday December 04, 2018 @06:03AM (#18598281)
I wouldn't call that government funding of art. They were not given money in exchange for producing art. They were just given money.
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