RAT Money, value and art

[brad rothbart <scrdchao@nni.com>]

All,
  On the  " live like  Republicans"  tip, I think that this applies to 
a lot of us. As  beautiful  as Erik's call to voluntary poverty is, I 
see on this list a lot of issues  around money. To me "living like a 
Republican" implies a certain amount of free- floating financial 
resource.  Now,  if one posits that money itself is value neutral- 
that the issue is the temptations money provides.....

Wouldn't it be nice if  we didn't have to have day jobs, and could 
simply focus on the work?
  Wo uldn't it be nice  if  we didn't have to  sneak copies  of 
scripts at work, but could simply hand them off  to a service bureau 
and pick them up?
Wouldn't it be  nice if we could do the four-color poster we think 
the work deserves rather than having to  reimagine  it in black and 
white, due to financial constraints?
  Wouldn't be nice  to be   able to hire an Equity cast if they best 
serve the work, pay SSD&C scale....
 

  We're artists- not poseurs. We deserve to work with the best 
materials out there- we shouldn't have to beg at the the table of 
limited finance.  Right now, money is conflated with value- and art 
deserves  to be valued  in a way that simply doesn't exist in this 
country. I'm tired of doing theatre in a permanent state of 
emergency- I feel my talent  deserves more respect  than that.

Also, as  an insurrectionist- nothing would make me happier than 
taking money from  conservatives and completely subverting their 
agenda.


-brad

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