Yeah, society might be spending the right amount of effort on art for personal pleasure. But I still think it spends too much effort on creating art for sale, judging from how many people are trying and failing to sell their art, not just create it...
That assumes that all the reward from art comes from the success, but many forms of art are pleasing in themselves, hence therapeutic art.
Yeah, society might be spending the right amount of effort on art for personal pleasure. But I still think it spends too much effort on creating art for sale, judging from how many people are trying and failing to sell their art, not just create it...