Artists aren't bad at business.
They're visionaries.
Problem-solvers.
World-builders.

They imagine what doesn't exist yet.
Bring visions into reality.
See possibilities others miss.

That's dangerous to a system built on extraction. And why the myth of the starving artist persists—to keep artists disconnected from their agency.

Telling the people in our society who are the most tapped-in that they deserve to suffer for that very calling — who does that serve?

Because resourced artists don't reproduce systems of harm. They don't replicate the dominant economy.

They build new ones.

Economies based on reciprocity. Community. Abundance.

Less likely to hoard wealth.
More likely to create mutual aid.

To heal. Grow. Nurture. Protect. Include. Care. Love.

Most people are too colonized in their minds to imagine a new economy, let alone create one.

But artists hold the leverage point.

The same creativity that makes art can make exceptional entrepreneurship—but not for making more of the same.

It will build the next wave.
A new paradigm.
Something yet to be imagined.