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#WritersCoffeeClub Nov 19 - What's something (even if fantastical!) which could improve your process?
Not fantastical at all: earlier this year the Irish government made their experimental program of basic income payments for artists (including authors) permanent. Generates more economic productivity than it costs, reduces precarity and stress. I really think we'd be better off if this scheme was adopted worldwide:
@cstross
Much better use for money than build weapons!
@cstross that sounds amazing!
@cstross ⏫ I've said for a while now that keeping all artists fed housed and healthy is the most effective social safety net
I even invented a foundation for it: PAX ARTIS the idea being that caring for artists as the safety net not only helps care for one of the more consistently immiserated demographics, the world has more art, science advances faster because as we all know art tends to foreshadow science, and will probably get us more artists, since people who feel trapped by their circumstances would be encouraged to think creatively
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