You are invoking a meme. I do have an art minor, so I've seen a lot of artists and people who are interested in art. There are many artists who remain poor to work their craft. They are not stressed about that - it is their choice.

There are wealthy people who are not interested in Art. As well, more than a few who are both artists and wealthy

But can you address how a poor person is kept from accessing art on the internet? Even places like Facebook have a lot of art on them. Not many people are bereft of a smartphone or computer.

I've been very poor, yet always been interested in art. I work many hours a week now (although slowed a bit since retirement) , more hours than when I was poor. I have money. I really think a person is interested in art or they are not. Making it into a class warfare issue is specious as far as I'm concerned.

But this is Slashdot, where virtue is inversely proportional to wealth. 8^)

Yelling doesn't work either. The problem is SINAD: Signal/(Noise+Distortion). Yelling amplifies the signal and the distortion and makes echos off the walls too. When talking to a deaf person like me, first turn off other sources of sound: TV, radio, lawn mowers, chain saws - get everyone else to shut up and then just talk a little more loudly and a little more slowly maybe as well.

Oh - averages, Can you give me those statistics? I get a lot of Artists exposing inequalities between rich and poor from searches. So perhaps rather than talk about statistical averages, and making it a wealthy versus poor battle - and let us face it, all of that reads a whole lot like good old class warfare - we might look into the differences between those people of modest means who are interested in art, and those of modest means who have no interest in art.

In addition, perhaps looking into the differences between wealthy people who are interested in art, and those who are not could be interesting. Because there are wealthy people who aren't interested.

Because if we just make this another have versus have not thing, it will deteriorate quickly.

If endless scrolling is what people want and they should have the right to have it. Kids are debatable because on one hand the parents should be controlling what their kids have access to but on the other hand what they have access to should be very clearly outlined by these companies. You can't claim to have a 13 year old mode for kids content and then show adult content like sexual videos or self harm.

to partake in "Arts and Cultural Engagement" it just might indicate having more disposable income to spend means your probably getting better health care and are aging better.

well yeah; but lets look at where we are now. Nobody is make domestic routers because you CAN'T for structural reasons complete with foreign ones.

There are exactly two ways to make domestic router production happen.

1) Defense production act, go all command economy compel some company with domestic electronics manufacturing plant they are going to produce routers. Good luck because it isnt just you with a PCB layout kit, and you there with the injection molding machine, hop to it. It is also design the thing, get the software (even if it is just Linux), .... Nobody at FCC is up to coordinating product delivery with all those inputs. The outcome will be some disaster of product nobody wants, that hardly works, very likely costs way to much, and will be way to stagnant crippling innovation of anything delivered by the net does not fit todays ipv4/6 and relative bandwidth scenario.

2) Ban stuff people need let some domestic company who is already in the business of building somewhat similar products maybe an enterprise player who could jump into the consumer market, that just has to solve how to replace their sourcing with domestic alternatives. Sure it is still disruptive, but at least has some tiny change of working...

3) Then there is the other don't make domestic production happen alternative, which is what most of Slashdot childless, globalist, America hates really want, that is to do fuck all about supply chain risk and the national security and sovereignty implications, because having some new shiny thing for very cheap that will be next years e-waste to play with is more important to them than America's future. While were at it, the public till can get raided to inject cash into some American chip makers so they can design but not actually make any chips, pat ourselves on the back watch our 401ks grow and pretend we did not just sell out our grandchildren at the same time.

You are aware that the people of China are doing the same lunacy we are, right?

You'd have to get a load of Bull manure for the last one.

A data center is not a factory producing goods. It's a static building that, once built and filled with computers, has no tangible products. That is not 'industrialization' that is 'let's do more useless service crap and eliminate jobs for humans.'

You have an interesting outlook. People with money and apparently a lot of free time, are living in a utopia of stress free living.

Perhaps your outlook and narrative shows where your priorities are. As I noted before to others, are you prevented from accessing the wealth of art on the Internet?

In reality, it isn't that there are reasons to find people with incredible amounts of money to be problematic.

But it also becomes problematic when it becomes an obsession, when all you see is reasons to spread your hate and turn every topic into class warfare.

While it makes for narrative validation to yet again turn people with money into your mortal enemy, do you have a computer? Do you have a cell phone?

Tell me comrade, are you blocked from accessing art sites on them?

Comrade, do not make the mistake of thinking that you need huge amounts of spare time and wealth to appreciate art. You can do it on your digital devices instead of watching reality TV. And museums are all over the place. What is more, you can even make your own art.

But it is easier to look at everything as your class warfare outlook - Maybe class warfare is your art form.

Nobody who actually uses his or her truck...as a truck...has bought a new one in quite some time. Not at those prices.

As a person of the class that you hate, I make the time to engage with the arts. And I did it when I was poor too.

Not everything is about your class warfare, comrade.

In other news, people who can afford the best medical care are also more likely to have time and money to visit museums and practice music.

My friend has a fancy hearing aid, and it has a setting where it focuses in on the voice of the person he is looking at. I think it's even called party mode. It cancels most noises except for the closest person his head is aimed at. He can tweak the sensitivity to the point he can clearly hear people talking from several tables away at a noisy restaurant, if he looks directly at the speaker.