You didn't answer all of my questions, which were not rhetorical and isn't really answered by your single sentence, so I'm not even sure you're familiar enough with your own country or the lives of artists within to really make a meaningful comparison for you.
I don't have any answers to give, I'm not very well informed on this topic. I'm asking you what makes you familiar with South Korea that you can make such a strong judgement about someone else's character or motivations on this topic.
The answer to that question has nothing to do with my own ignorance on this topic, and the fact that you keep dodging this tells me a lot more about who in this conversation is the actual asshole.
>tells me a lot more about who in this conversation is the actual asshole.
So I lived in Korea for some years, friends with 3 artists there trying to make it in capital A art in Seoul. The answer is (obviously) there is no significantly different familial support system between artists living in Korea and other developed capitalist countries that would somehow change the lifestyle of the average artist, and the suggestion is some strange orientalism or severe ignorance of lives of artists in capitalist countries. Ask on the Korean subreddit if you want variations on this answer.
Anyways, this exchange gave me a chuckle at least, a hostile+willfully ignorant or orientalist person wanted to call someone an asshole but did so in questions rather than a statement, and got upset when they were called ignorant in questions rather than a statement.
