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The Death of the Middle-Class Musician

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300 points pseudolus | 1 comments | 28 Jun 25 22:06 UTC | HN request time: 0.243s | source
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Projectiboga ◴[29 Jun 25 01:30 UTC] No.44409650[source]▶
What has been developing for awhile is that musicians are coming from richer backgrounds on average. They can dally around trying their hand as a working musician and can fail and not be destitute. The age of a working class or lower class musician is waining.
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patcon ◴[29 Jun 25 06:37 UTC] No.44410787[source]▶
Science used to work this way too, didn't it? You'd be rich, or you'd have a wealthy benefactor.
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1. whatshisface ◴[29 Jun 25 07:07 UTC] No.44410901[source]▶
To go back in time before university endowments for intellectual work you'd find yourself in a monestary, with endowments from the nobility for intellectual work (copying texts and making those great illuminated manuscripts). As far as I know the model you're describing did apply to ancient Greece.