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In times of "essential services" and "essential workers", of quarantine, social distancing and lockdowns... "art". Topical!

Government and ruling class and bigots of all kinds consider large groups of people, if not all, to be expendable.
Specially someone isn't productive, or seen as a burden. Some people not only don't have useful skills, but they're not even artists! Some are not even pretty to look at! Clearly they should become janitors, fruit pickers, or coders. Or should governments fund "the arts" and the "artistic class"?
It's hard to imagine ballerinas, janitors or fruit pickers causing some big catastrophe, but it's easier to imagine hackers and coders doing that.

"Government scraps ballet dancer reskilling ad criticised as 'crass'"

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/oct/12/ballet-dancer-could-res...

imagine if "Ballet dancers reskill and scrap criticised crass government"