Oh that's a good point. I wonder why that is. I can't imagine every commissioner is hardcore anticapitalist enough to not have some amount of consumer brain.
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A large part of it (I think?) is spending time interacting with communities and just being people. Lotta big commissioners I know are decent people and treat artists well because of it.
Also genuine interest in the act of creating, which isn't something you can just buy. Though many rich folks try.
Which is what wraps all the way back around to the original post: at least some of these folks are desperately trying to buy their way out of what they so strongly feel they lack in their lives, genuine human connection.
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Also genuine interest in the act of creating, which isn't something you can just buy. Though many rich folks try.
When most of it happens at the intersection of people being people, telling stories to each other, and shitposting their favorite ideas into reality.
Being very rich starves you of community that you can trust, and some sociopathies that break empathy lead to wanting to be very rich as a cope.