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Re:Ireland rolls out pioneering basic income scheme for artists by Retric on Thursday February 12, 2026 @01:09AM (#46985370)
Working artists, spouses, and semi-retirees are relatively common.

‘2,000 creative workers’ would make this quite competitive, even if it’s only 20k USD/year that could easily enable people to be artists who wouldn’t make a career of it on their own.

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Re:Ireland rolls out pioneering basic income scheme for artists by CalRobert on Thursday February 12, 2026 @01:25AM (#46985446)
Right, and it would be great if people who wished to become artists could avail of this, but now it only goes for people who already are artists.
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Re:Ireland rolls out pioneering basic income scheme for artists by plastic-enjoyer on Thursday February 12, 2026 @04:26AM (#46986623)
Who fucking cares. It is a good thing and most people who are mad about a basic income for artists are people that shit on art anyway, such as tech folks that have their personal rather one-sided beef with artists for a few decades now.
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Re:Ireland rolls out pioneering basic income scheme for artists by Retric on Thursday February 12, 2026 @05:22PM (#46996126)
Many people who are artists can’t afford to stay artists.

Pulling a 80 hour workweeks at 24, supporting yourself while doing something else is not sustainable. Similarly someone supporting themselves as an artist + a kid is suddenly a very different situation.

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Re:Ireland rolls out pioneering basic income scheme for artists by fakedang on Thursday February 12, 2026 @04:41AM (#46986732)
Anyone who can build an art portfolio in their spare time is quite comfortable in my books.

20k USD/yr is life changing for some people down on their luck.

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