Artistic invention is a social good the market will not optimize for.

Evidence

The first step in reversing cultural stagnation is to accept that artistic invention is a social good. And like so many other social goods, we shouldn’t expect the market to optimize for its production. We have to make an effort. Creators need to try to make radical new forms of culture. Even their failures and half steps will be more interesting than overly market-tested, premium-mediocre pop. — W. David Marx, Blank Space, 850

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Contemporary creative identity no longer opposes commerce to art. — Brooke Erin Duffy, (Not) Getting Paid to Do What You Love:…, 739