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[–] [email protected] 69 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Lol, thinking opera composers were rich people.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago

Also Operas aren't necessarily much more expensive than a cinema ticket. Some Opera houses have reasonable prices.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago (1 children)

~20 min clicking through the wikipedia page on Opera seems to suggest you're correct, most of them were middle class or poor

huh. til

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

Many classical composers were basically like pets rich people owned (sponsored).

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My wife graduated in the opera arts. Now teaching because the money is better and more reliable.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

You know your field is fucked when people are becoming teachers for the higher pay.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The players aren't rich either, nor most of the singers.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You don't need to be rich to go to your local theater. Theater can be great

As our home screens got bigger and the price got higher and the experience worse I stopped going to the movies entirely; but theater I do still go a few times a year

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

memes: easy as F to produce propaganda for the rich of any country to use on the poor of any other country

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Probably depends on where you live but for example in Austria, you can be poor and are still able to go and to enjoy the theater or opera.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Instructions unclear, I am now the fat lady.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

What are video games? And what about books?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Video Games: By smart people, for dumb people Books: by smart people, for smart people Art: by dumb people, for smart people NFTs: by dumb people, for dumb people

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

And it's some shitty messaging app meme. Jesus

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No one's paying for memes though unlike all the other options.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

You guys don't pay for your memes? Damn.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Thor 3

Ugh. 😖

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Memes are the DNA of the soul!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Revolution of what? Going to the theater to become rich? What stoner did you chat with?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Where does my-hero factor into it? Unless he's an after-market and very-divorced dealer down at the used meme dealership.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

memes still require content created by the rich people

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm guessing you're pretty young and don't remember the garbage memes from the early 2000s. Zero content required from rich people.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I do remember them we need to get back to those beautiful pieces of artwork memes are too commercialized now lmao

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

It pisses me off when memes are coopted by corporations. That should be illegal.