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Message: <blockquote data-quote="prosfilaes" data-source="post: 7695129" data-attributes="member: 40166">Where's the money coming from? You can't have the same amount of art made at higher prices on the same budget. There's no people getting rich off our industry. How much does Elton John make? I'd say that's a good living. And yet parents push their kids from being musicians for the exact same reason they push their kids from being artists. There are more people who want to be artists and musicians then the world has demand and money for art and music. If parents pushed their kids to be artists, it would just be worse. Increasing the supply of artists reduces the amount that they're going to get paid. That's supply and demand, economics 101. Someone above linked to <a href="http://www.deviantart.com/" target="_blank">http://www.deviantart.com/</a> . I invite you to look at it. One can discuss the quality of art on the Internet; that's in the eye of the beholder. But to seriously claim that the low pay of artists produces low quantity of art is to ignore the Internet, wherein millions of artists are showing off their works, frequently without someone else covering the hosting costs like DeviantArt does.</blockquote>