As a working class person who can’t afford art and has always pirates everything this is accurate.
Comment on Temu: British artist's anger at finding work on site without permission
oeuf@slrpnk.net 4 days ago
This wouldn’t matter so much if 1) Arts Council funding hadn’t been decimated under austerity and 2) Working class people could afford to buy art.
The pool of people who can afford to keep the arts alive is rapidly diminishing. I work with artists and see this week in week out but it’s the same with everything.
Rich man moves to the village and everyone goes to work for him.
LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days ago
MoonManKipper@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Temu are stealing her work and profiting from it. It matters - clearly there are a bunch of people who can afford to keep art alive who are spending their money at Temu rather than with her. Sort that out and then art can be less dependent on public spending and thus more robust
RobotToaster@mander.xyz 4 days ago
Temu sell it for just over the cost of production, while the artist sells it with a high mark up, there’s a difference in affordability.
FishFace@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Well, kinda. Their cost of production is lower partly because they don’t have to pay an artist enough to feed themselves.
DakRalter@thelemmy.club 4 days ago
Art takes time, money and creativity to make. Of course that’s going to be more expensive than downloading something someone else made and printing it out. Accounting for the time and costs that go into making art isn’t a high markup, it’s being paid for your labour.
Blackmist@feddit.uk 4 days ago
Isn’t Temu just a bunch of shady Chinese resellers in a trenchcoat like Amazon?