Brian Eno message - Don't get a job 

lmao

scenius lmao

It's only natural

He is a singer after all

Lmao

It's almost always an option. The question is if you are willing to endure some discomfort and insecurity for awhile. I've been homeless and hungry for extended periods of my life because I was not willing to put a harness around my neck. I survived doing what I like to do, and am good at. (Building and fixing things....) but I do it on MY terms.

And you are awful at music too. So sad.

@@theobserver9131 You are a real one! Keep following your dreams.

@@theobserver9131 aka punishment from the 'tribe.' Most people can't tolerate that. We have evolved to be this way.

You know I’ve wondered if we ever reached a Utopia, what would Artists actually have to draw inspiration from…

Oof. This goes hard.

Looked it up - it's from the movie "My Dinner with Andre"

@@SamAndrew27 I really need to watch that film.

LOVE My dinner with Andre!!

Such a good movie. I love when Andre starts going on about the new world order

What book is it from? Thanks!

This is simply not possible anymore in most countries around the world - life is now mostly unaffordable even with working full-time.

@@opus-px3hz Diary of a Drug Fiend

@@TheCybermonty yes, I believe you are correct. This has to change.

@@TheCybermonty Yep. I will not give specifics but I earn more than 99% of Germany ( I live in Germany) and I still struggle to get "ahead" in the sense that I struggle to get to a place where I can stop working for more than a week or two. When I was earning minimum wage back in 2017, I had 100x more free time. My income has increased 10 fold but my expenses have also increased 10 fold because I now have to pay higher rent, higher food prices, taking care of my health through better quality food and supplements, my mother needs help because she is no longer getting work like she used to thanks to new AI models, my girlfriends family also always get money from her because they cannot find work at all. It's horrible for most people nowadays. I'm still grateful for what I have. Being able to not work, is a privilege that very few can now enjoy, without rejecting society entirely and becoming homeless/welfare dependant which is still not "free".

itdies2dayyo I was working a lot for so little then I decided I'm going to give this art thing a go or just join the "real" work force (i.e. some shitty office job) so I started working just 2 days a week, and began making art and booking shows and within six months I was making almost twice as much as had been as a full-time barista/supervisor from my art alone. It was not a ton of money mind you, but a sustainable wage to pay my bills car and spending cash. And what came with it was a peace of mind like you couldn't believe like I would have never thought possible. Something akin to what born again people talk about when they receive god only it was because I started doing what I was supposed to do. Like a baptism of divine satisfaction It's scary to let go because it goes against everything society tells you to do, but once you do it's like entering a new part of the game it feels like cheating, you wonder why everyone doesn't do it, I should have done it years ago.

You are so, so right, itdies2dayyo. We grownups are (many of us anyway) a bunch of sleep deprived, on-edge exhausted people. I'm old enough to remember learning in school decades ago that in the 21st century, people would struggle to find something to do with themselves after finishing their 8 hour work weeks (!) Technology was supposed to free us . . . but now I realize I'm whining and self-pity is deeply unattractive. I've got to get back to work marking papers and I must try to ignore my guitars . . . (sniff, teardrop . . .)

I find the long yawning gaps in between being able to get things done really hard going - waiting for the magic moment when everyone’s schedule lines up just to be able to get in a room and rehearse - once! This is what stops art flourishing in the ‘day job’ world.

Eno, like Wilde, is speaking ideally. In fact, to try to be creative while working 40 hours+ a week is probably detrimental to health (and creativity), but in an ideal world... If mankind was freed from the chains of dull repetitive work.... How creative we might be? And what profusion of ideas, should we share our skills and creative time with each other. Sadly, present society inhibits such general proliferation. It's the idle rich or very fortunate who seem to be the artistic type...only because they have the time to indulge. We are all capable of creativity, given time and energy.

itdies2dayyo here here! Me too! Peace Christo 🎶🎶🎶👍🏻👍🏻👽👽🐕🐕✌🏻🙏🕺👏🏻🕺🛸🔦

Geezer noodles I hope you can change your situation noodles

So...stop doing that.

Sounds horrible

@@MikaelLewisify How the hell can we stop working like slaves? If you have dependants, you are totally fucked and have nothing but working to try and support families. All hopes and dreams are ruined and not allowed for us plebs. So what are you saying? If you give up working and have no money to back you. Then you end up begging for a living and have a cardboard box to sleep in

@@MikaelLewisify just get a better life 4head

this paired with devotion will lead to great human beings

Did you know that food costs money

is common sense. Work for yourself. You cant blame anybody but yourself for your failures or achievements.

More like a lazy as shit society.

Dude, what?! Okay, so he basically promoted a socialist system, which you cheer for. But in what system was a concious society, individuals, individualism and individual's art (which is the ultimate expression of a conscious individual's creativity) more undermined, restricted and suppressed than in our today's society? Oh right, it was SOCIALISM!! (and National Socialism). You kids have no clue what you are talking about! All these test runs and studies of universal income in Skandinavia showed that it does NOT have the outcome the left wishes it would have. No matter how the media tried to twist this narrative in the past. These studies speak a different language. How can you all be so receptive to this blatant nonsense and not be able to critically think and apply historical knowledge to your thought process. Some pseudo-intellectual artist says something in front of some students and you go "wow" but you don't understand ANYTHING he said or in what cultural/historical relation that stands and how it is to be evaluated. It is sad, very sad!

me too!

​@@thatbitch1111 me three!

@@91toinfinity secretly i never really felt bad about it tho 😂

Same 25yo and unemployed

It took me a while to get there, but now I'm moving in the same direction. Going to spend as long as I can without a job and working on creative endeavors like writing music and throwing diy shows. Such an inspirational speech.

and what is his living situation?

@@lethaldisq he;s still alive

Graham Wright hahah smartass

@@lethaldisq ha ha Sorry couldn't resist

how does he manage?

I do, therefore he's incorrect (anecdotal evidence for the win).

Is working 8 hours so tiring for you? what about the weekends? I think you need to manage your time better or work harder, if it was true that you can't do anything after working for 8 hours monday to friday then there would be no people that get an education as an adult, or that start a business while having a job, or go to the gym, etc.

Neither one of you is creative apparently. When you waste your brain power hitting keys on a computer or answering phones you hardly have any creative energy left. Creative energy is limited. Plus you have no clue what the persons job is.

@@davedean2326 Thats literally an opinion dude, sorry your brain just doesnt have what it takes to stay creative lol but thats a you problem

​@@382u3uuej all jobs are not created equal. Some jobs are super draining, some aren't.

Better people, creating a better society, more empathetic and with solid moral values That starve

Citation needed

and HOMELESS

But how many people will take the initiative to introspect? What's the incentive?

@@TheDionysianFields Insight! Understanding is a great reward. Understanding yourself helps to avoid stupid conflicts and gives opportunities to make new choices. I've only worked halftime most of my life, and supported myself on that. I'm still poor, and maybe I should have worked more. Had I had any encouragement from family, instead of having to raise myself, maybe I'd have found a good place in the world for me. Still trying. We're sentient, not insects, so we really use try to use our minds more - lol.

backfootgrinder - Thanks dude, you too!

As it flows from you, it flows back

I needed so much your wishes. I wish you all the best from the bottom of my heart.

If there were more comments like this RU-vid would be a happier place

What a great fucking comment. Thanks pal, all the best to you too.

Im sorry..

Read Prabhupada books asap mate. Good luck

i bet you still vote republican

@@thugtrippin It hasn't just been Republicans in power this whole time, the left has had plenty of time behind the leavers of power, you're being ignorant.

@@chronometer9931 If you consider Democrats "left" you haven't been paying attention.

I'm glad you get to do that now.

You have couple of decades leFt. Don't waste them.

@@aek12 Oh I can assure you I am not! 😁

I'm doing that right now, 5 years into my career. A part of me wants to leave it, at least until I can bang out this album and then let that sink or swim. Just to say I gave it a proper go more than anything. Another part of me thinks that even though the work is exhausting and full time, the regularity of it allows me plan more than the shift workers in the project. Practices, gigs, and everything else are all easiest for the nine-to-fivers because we know where we'll be for the next week, month, and decade

Cool. Now that you have time, maybe you can write childrens accompaniment music for drag queen story hour at your local library.

Christ - you've just reminded me of a beautiful song. Off I go to listen to it. Thanks, mate!

@@tonybates7870 A certain song by Springsteen?

I’m with you buddy. Turned 36 living with the rents again and just trying to live a happier life. No wife and children either.

No wife no kids👍…no need for sure!!! Outdated thinking….also you come into this world alone and leave it the same so dont F it up in between👍

🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻Same. Getting certs and knowledge to apply towards IT.

good luck!

@@italiad1013 l can't say it's outdated or not, but l sure don't feel like bringing to life a newborn in this world! I say those having kids in a place like this must be mad, and l mean no offense.

This was good insight, thank you. What factors led you to finally break through? And what does “doing well” look like for you now?

I lived in my studio for a bit--had electric pots and kettles for my "kitchen," went to the YMCA to shower. It's not so bad. If you're not willing to sacrifice for what you want, what you want becomes the sacrifice. I'm glad you're doing well now. I think the start is tough for everyone, unless they were born rich.

@@educatorsincommon5355 hahah youre taking me back mate, I had an electric rice cooker where i cooked all my meals. You can do some crazy shit with a rice cooker. I was cooking entire fuckin chili con carnes in that shit 😂 didnt want to risk the electric stove lol

@@jcar93music No prob mate. After nearly a decade of making music, and 5 years full time, I now make enough to live decently enough. I make a living off of dj'ing, my music (royalties+pub), teaching music production and the occasional mix+master. I live in new york which is crazy expensive but i get by (just about). That being said my dj fee keeps climbing, so hopefully will be able to do that full time soon ! As for factors that helped me get there, 1) producing music constantly and pushing myself v hard 2) networking and connecting with people

@@Kamino I appreciate that insight man. Any advice for an artist wanting to move to the city with no money? Would you recommend it? Do you think it's important to be in a city, or do you think with hard work, you can make it from anywhere? I really wanna be in the city, it's just so expensive. I'm also curious if you feel like you still have autonomy as a musician who relies on that income to get by. Do you find yourself having to do jobs you aren't crazy about a lot? Are your gigs creatively satisfying for you or is it more about the money than anything else? I hope these questions aren't too probing...these are just things I grapple with and ponder as a musician, who wants to work, but doesn't want to feel boxed into doing something I don't really enjoy just to be a working musician. Maybe that's just me being naive? I certainly hope not

It's easy to say things like this when you have a net worth of 50 mil.

for real. utterly right!

​@@BlackSailPass_GuitarCovers this critique falls pretty flat when the person with money and influence is directly advocating for a future with more prosperous and equitable opportunities for everyone, not just folks like him who managed to become extremely successful. We should be asking the condescending billionaires who tell us to “pull ourselves up by our bootstraps” why they don’t have perspectives more like Eno’s.

@@overnoble Yep, fair point. I'm just saying that there are many people who _can't_ spare any time for creative activity or reducing their hours, as they're stuck on a relentless treadmill of poverty. Given the competitive nature of the music industry, quitting their job or going part-time to pursue a musical career might doom them and their family to homelessness.

@@BlackSailPass_GuitarCovers That is why he's promoting universal basic income. To solve that problem.

"this month's rent feels very minimalist to me. needs more bank notes"

you were right the first time

​@br4n1g4n But the idea is to create . That is the value. 🍻

governments only like people they can earn money off of, ie taxpayers, the very idea that people could feel happier not working for the man is a government's worst nightmare ...

In this world there's only slaves and their owners. We are the slaves and our only chance of freedom is death, which why I'm killing myself soon

People like Mr Eno would make wonderful patrons for budding artists. Most of the medieval artists had very rich patrons subsidizing them.

Good luck out there! Try to apply to some fellowships. The US sucks when it comes to supporting artists. You may wanna try to get citizenship abroad if you can sometime in the future. Europe supports their artists.

In a market-driven society, such as the one most of us have to endure these days, “art” have become a very ambiguous and exploited term. This type of society doesn’t understand the natural need for artistic expression. Only if something that our artistic expression produce that can be sold and turned into monetary value can art be of value to someone cherishing current market slavery. It has come to a point now that artists are being called “entrepreneurs” by politicians and political commentators. This is an attempt by the ruling class to neutralize the rebellious nature of the artistic heart. They know that at the heart of creativity lies freedom and non-conformity, and they hate that attitude! Their view is that only if you are unique and ambitious enough, as an artist, you’re worthy of a small compensation and allowed to live a life outside the norms of workplace slavery. The system is set up such that only a handful of people are allowed to live a life as artists in this way. A few are picked out and put on pedestals as examples to show the world what a free-thinking and liberal society we have. But if we examine what these so-called artists are producing we find nothing rebellious or uplifting about what they do anymore. Once they have been chosen by the establishment they tend to only produce stuff that glorifies the ruling orders of society. The tragedy is that every human being is born with the innate drive for creativity. It is an universal part of being a conscious being. This potential we all have is being harnessed and “harvested” by society for many destructive purposes. Very early on in life our parents and teachers begin their systematic indoctrinating campaigns against the natural drives in the minds of the small children. Accepted traditions, religion, schooling systems and culture will all be instruments in the campaigns against the free spirit within the minds of our children. By the time we’re around 18-20 years old we should be sufficiently transformed into the type of robot that society wants you to be for the rest of your life. Bear this in mind next time you hear anyone propagating the freedoms of todays market economy. It only looks like a free society from the standpoint of a completed process of brainwashing. Many of us comfort ourselves with the idea that at least we have managed to create a family and reared a few children into this world. -At least we have managed to put food on the table for a few people during our lifetime. If this is your attitude, remember this; -who is really benefiting from your efforts to bring children to this world? If your efforts have been to bring as much benefit to your children, in accordance with their own inner drives and interests, then I applaud you! But if our efforts have just been to bring more slaves to the slaveowners to work their fields of useless activity until they grow old and die, what good will that have produced? Religion, the political establishment and the cooperate world all want just one thing from you; -full and complete surrender to a system that dictates why you have a life and what it is for. Your own inner drives must be abolished and eradicated. These institutions have set up a full spectrum of views and regulations that dictates what’s acceptable, and what’s not. Choosing a life as a free-spirited artist is to say NO to a life dictated by any authority. Choosing a life as an artist is to say YES to your own divine nature and a life as an free-spirited yogi. If there’s only one thing that we should never forget to do in our lives; -we should wake up every morning promising ourselves to honor our own divine right to be our own unique version of consciousness. Never let anyone else dictate the choices you make in life. As long as your choices do not harm others you’re free to express your own uniqueness any way you like! Never listen to anyone telling you that the only way to contribute to the welfare of others is to conform and participate in the money-game and market-oriented slavery that is ruling the planet at the moment.

edinburghrw1982 - do that as much as you can no matter what that looks like so that your soul doesn't die.

only do a job if you enjoy it and gain satisfaction from it is my interpretation, and if it advances your creativity not hinders

I think what he's saying is that the expectation to give up your life for a job is a shame, and if possible, try your hardest not to.

edinburghrw1982 the reality is that you don’t get to choose if that is possible or not

get a passion which you make a career out of, not a job

dead channel it's been a year, I hope you are a lil bit closer to where you should be, you still have a lot of years ahead of you....

Better late than never!

i agree dawg, we should move away from a money-based society & such- u want 2 cop me all ur money & property lol? ill take it off ur hands 4 u ;)

Art is an illusion. We need science, hard work and money. Greed is the greatest virtue, which drive us to work harder for money.

@@aek12 Greed is a vice

Eno is talking about the creative process and art. He is saying we are all part of a zeitgeist, and while we're moving through this time, there will people who can articulate what is happening in their immediate environment. These articulations will mark a period in history. From this standpoint, Eno is FAR FROM pompous because he is saying that his artistic input is ONE OF MANY. It also includes other equally articulate musicians AND also includes writers, inventors, filmmakers, etc. - any creator in that same zeitgeist. In this sense, everyone collectively lays the fertile groundwork from which creativity springs from. This is why you really shouldn't think too much of your individual work. Eno is really displaying humility by acknowledging the role his environment had on his success, and that he was merely a small part of that. And this creatively nurturing environment is what he thinks is lacking. Your conclusion is a little black and white, and quite frankly, hierarchal, and very much based on commercial success which is the wrong way to interpret what Eno said. Further, the idea of meritocracy is arbitrary and an ideological construct. If you don't believe this, consider artists who never achieved commercial success but should have because they were hugely influencial and created seismic changes in their field - people like Little Richard, Chuck Berry and every blues artist that came before them. If the world really functioned on merit, the prejudices of the times wouldn't have been been a factor in how they were treated.

Yep it is like Schwarzenegger said: "I dont believe in the concept of the Selfmade Man. Everybody is where he is because he had help of others around him" (for example parents, teachers, farmers ect)

You missed the point, just because someone is raised in the same environment doesnt mean they will make all the same life decisions. (Another black and white Conclusion on your part) Where you conclude that just because they had the "exact same upbringing " they should have lived identical lives. Although there are individuals who will be seen as pioneers or figure heads to every artistic endeavor there is no denying the fact that these individuals need a start that is nurturing to their growth just as a seed only will sprout with a sufficient water source. It only makes sense that many of the greatest or most well known artists are those surrounded by many artistic folk during their upbringing. Many people will make bad decisions but if they are never allowed to exist in an environment where they have the option to be creatives then no one will ever know just the capacity to which they can be artistic which I think eno is really trying to get at, and Not not that we must crush and beat down on anyone who stands out as exceptionally talented. @@maxwellboyne2770

@@maxwellboyne2770 Well - Schwarzenegger's quote says it all. He was probably fortunate to meet the right people at the right time. Don't get me wrong - hard work is extremely important, but it's just part of the equation of success. If it were the primary reason, there would be a hell of a lot more billionaires.

@@maxwellboyne2770 This video was about art and obviously you're not an artist so what are you doing here anyway? BTW, simple minds hurl insults when they have nothing interesting to say. Good day.

No it's not. Interest rates are slavery.

when you have to pay for half the population, yes you are a slave.

Ok so don't work. How are you going to pay rent or pay for your kids' college tuition, moron?

and Chomsky, BTW, is PAID by MIT. He isn't bumming around doing nothing.

Pat Robertson You’re describing the problem, not refuting the argument.

i don't think Picasso's Dad was exactly rich btw Picasso spent time being bloody hard up in Madrid & Paris as well

@@THDYoung Thats bullshit, his parents were sending him money, how else would he afford wine and prostitutes? real poor people are long forgotten. You know how materialistic women are, they would not give him a minute if he didnt have money.

@@THDYoung And that was without having to pay a Greedy Tory Poll or Council Tax for the Privilege!

Based. Or get picked up by CIA

100%

@Brian Eno Hello Brian...I am quite cooked after 3 weeks of repairing an old stone building in Melbourne. The next two weeks are mine to do as I please with. This includes writing chapter two of the book in progress and further sonic excursions with my Deluge, a very powerful and nifty machine I'm sure you're aware of. Thanks for the music btw, if this is really you? If no, have a fine evening either way...

I do only seasonal job recently. Maybe is a way to have time for music but don't know if it's sustainable

@@PanosAnomioum It's getting harder and harder to do...I wish you all the best with it

I’m at that fork with my photography. Thank you for this.

@@Freddy_v Keep swingin' Ed...if you've got the light inside it's the only real choice

When he says don't get a job, he's referring to creative people.

@@HypnoticHollywood ~ So let's tell all the chefs in the world to quit their jobs.

@@HypnoticHollywood that's right - this was not an anti-capitalist or abolitionist statement, it was explicitly pointed at artists in school who've not yet entered the 'workforce', but as evidenced by the comments, there is a great amount of anger (fear) around not jobbing.

This is proving his point: where I'm from, firefighters, healthcare staff and cops very often need another job to sustain themselves, and there is a serious shortage of these people as a result.

rather a full-time liver, man

Ham Food best art comes from struggling with tribulations

Or aiming for a job to pay for basic needs & enough free time/energy to pursue your passions. If successful, perhaps replace that job with income from your art.

Artie VanDelayo Yeah, this is maybe where there was a bit of ambiguity? I could actually relate more to what he was saying, if the idea is that more artists should start to consider whether they want their art to be based on a "job" vs. their free time. I got the sense that he's not opposed to the idea of getting some job that covers the basics, but that still leaves one with ample time to do their art. Perhaps not? Perhaps he meant "job" as in anything that's unrelated to the arts? I, personally, always thought that art as a profession was a bit of an oxymoron, lol.

Cr8Tron Great point about oxymoron!

How do we escape 😢

@@trydowave change is the escape. Only change disrupts ossified order. The war was such a change. In democracy no part should rule more than 1 or maximum 2 terms. If they do they become more and more authoritarian in their pursuit of staying in power longer. The same for corpos and the wealthy. Only disruption, or innovation can change things for the better. Old order suits the old brigade, and the old brigade does not want to fight another war, they want stability coz the are at the top ... Change, innovation and disruption are the tools we need.

@@trydowave national socialism.

Good for you. I did the same when I was younger. I would play in bands and be lucky to get enough for the petrol home. Being an artist of any kind is a full time occupation. We get ideas at all hours.

How do you pay the bills? You living in your Mom's basement or do you panhandle? Nobody rides for free.

@@shitmandood Like I said, it's not an unqualified success and it's a battle to make film-making work financially. But that's what I'm trying to do.

you can create with no money. Buy paper and a pencil done! duhhhh

Either this is some attempt at sarcasm or there is a flaw in your logic so amazing that I can't comprehend how somebody could actually believe it.

borrow or steal....route through skips for materials its easy

Yup! I know that one all too well.

you are able to create your financial obligations ;)

Everyone is born equal. Our minds are equal socially always. No one decides value in others. We decide value in ourselves. The only human beings that have less value socially are those that are violent and/or aristocratic. We are not here to judge or to pick fights, but to love, share honesty, cooperate, and contribute. If an individual sees things differently, they are jealous and won’t admit it. What we do (showing off to impress others) and what our personalities are (the level of honesty we share) must be separate ideas, not one and the same. Human beings need to make a distinction between those two and keep it there always. There is no room for classism in an evolved society. It leads to mental illness, homelessness, religion, and violence. Focus on telepathy. Evolve the planet with empathy and compassion.

u r brave and deep.

I've just started doing this. any tips?

Well done

how much coin do you make busking?

stringsnare it varies so much .. location / day / other performers (drummers/bucket players/trumpet players encroaching .. I hate noise pollution so hard to play some popular spots.. I use two 50 watt amps with a deep cell battery and pure sine inverter to power my amps, looper and effects.. I made very little with just an acoustic guitar.. so I never play acoustic busking I’ve made as little as $20 for 3 hours on a cool cloudy windy day on the walking mall but I’ve also made that much in parks practicing with no tip jar out .. Usually $85-$125 for 4 hours before covid ... Most was $250 in 4 hours during zombie crawl.. An old guy wrote me a check for $250 a few weeks ago while I was practicing in a park.. I made $130 last Saturday in another park . That was unexpected.. hasn’t been the norm lately .. but I also attract occasional park rangers enforcing the no speaker rule.. then I move the speakers into my rv 😂 it’s worked.. I’ve got a few noise complaints where the cops have shut me down in the parks .. not so much on the sidewalks around town .. but covid has changed things

@@kayakchrispy thats amazing, thanks so much, more incentive for me to practice more :):)

It is 8 months for me now. I struggled a lot with self esteem and started regreting life choices. But I then discovered my passion for writing. I might have finally discovered my freedom. Still looking for work but with less desperation now.

not having a job necessitates you actually doing something other than lounging though, becoming a full time artist or any number of things youre passionate about

Are you speaking from experience?

if you have no savings, yes...

Why would it be a nightmare after only a couple of weeks or months ? Many people who are doing 12 hour shifts in factories and repetitive call centres would feel like thats a nightmare at times in doing that.

Going through that right now. After all there isn't much to be said and most of the "problems" people sing about aren't really problems at all, so why bother writing songs about those things lol.

Out of curiosity, how old are you?

You have to network with other artists bro. Like the video says, great art is made in communities. You may meet another artists to bounce ideas off of and get better at art

Sadly there's a little catch in this - the interaction itself. Levels of commitment (and mutual expectations, I believe) between people. There is always a push and pull kind of situation with it.

josé freitascruz Too true, the real deal would be being here for eachother rather than the dollar sign, that would truely make a life

We need more caring economies!

im pretty much the exact same as you in this regard

Very true ❤

Could I ask you more about this? I'm contemplating doing this rn, and even am making enough money to survive on music alone, but am scared to quit my now high-paying 4-day a week day job, since ive had a taste of money now. I lose time, to get strong enough in my craft to be able to succeed in my scene. But I gain money to be able to better advertise what i do - which is increasingly not good enough because of the time stolen from it by my day job for that money.

​@@dochasbeo5468 if you have any dependents relying on you then keep your job. Your family is more important than any dream

@@sp123 No dependents. I don't need much to live on. Handed in my notice last Friday. It's done now, either way haha! Estimating I'll be able to make 40% of what I've been making for the moment, hopefully bringing it up to 60/65% in 3-4 months. Regardless, I made the best call I could. Something felt wrong about being in there, and I couldn't even pretend anymore. Couldn't dial it in. I work from home, and without a whip cracked on me, nothing was even making me work anymore. I was beginning to waste these people's time and resources, and it didn't seem right to do that anymore. Going to spend a lot of time on my local street, where street musicians, if they're good, can make a decent living. It will be tough - but this is the path I've taken, and better believe I'm going to give it my everything.

great comment my friend, gonna seek that book!

Óscar A. Montiel Most compilations of Wilde's works will contain this essay. Another of my Wilde favourites that inspires me greatly is 'The Critic as Artist', in which Wilde proposes that in critiquing an artistic work, one may create something even greater via such analysis. Wilde & Eno, good company.

wilde's essay is easily found using google, but if i post the link the bots will probably eat it. it's at the marxists dot org site, for sure.

Have fun joining the over 200 MILLION people socialists killed in the last 100 years. So fucking stupid. You'll be dying in droves just as soon as they can get full control - same way they have been, ever since they started marching. Lazy, ignorant fools...enjoy the hurt, because you don't want to EARN your own money....just give your power away to politicians. You'll see.

i'm not quite sure why the right continues to push this long debunked point. there was never any concept of worker self-ownership, not in russia and certainly not in china. this continued perpetuation of what is really just ignorance isn't even perplexing, it's just annoying - nobody believes this, and no amount of repetition is going to make it believable.

yes and that's HIS individual genius! not many achieved what he did

Seeing as this is from a forum on basic universal income I hardly think it can be read as an apolitical success story.

While I understand Brian’s point ( I know very well that to be creative, you need time) I really would like to know who supported him while he was being creative? Who went to work and paid for his home, his food, his clothes, and all the other expenses of normal life? You cannot survive without money to live on. Who couldn’t be creative because they had to get a job to not only support themselves but support him too? I wish this video had explained that.

it's slightly offensive reading your comment!

Absolutely. Somebody has the lay the stones on the road, clean the streets. Robots ain't doing it yet.

True. Born with nothing. We make choices of our lives. Some people may leave school with no qualifications and still became successful. Some people who go to university, may end up being unemployed for years, or end up forming bands = Queen.

Say that to day labourer in africa.

shame. negativland would have been better without eno's dick up their backside. fuckwit. "small craft on a sea of milk". very small craft.

Pretentious prick

Kelvin Smith are you calling the commenter pretentious or Eno?

@@classicpinball9873 Eno of course

Kelvin Smith Maybe his solo work is kinda dumb but he produced great albums like Heroes and Remain in Light

Burundi

Penious: the creative intelligence of the male sex organ (insert joke here)

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@@PatrickAlanMcL I refer to mine as weenius

@@PatrickAlanMcL that's what she said

if u got some privilege living in 3rd world.. u can do it too

Ian Abrahão it is said the happiest are the poorest...they don't worry about all the haves, and keeping up with things, protecting, etc. they work and live together and share all resources as need and because it is right action. some times with choice there is misery...

@@jlande6 The get off the Internet.

EXACTLY. Completely different realities

What about living in a first world country makes you not have to work?

ice man for president

Not everybody is or wants to be creative. There's a world to be run too.

@@cigh7445 if you aren't being creative then the world is running you

So what you realy discribing here is that ur interactions with other people gave you new perspective and skills. Well basic income gives people the time to spend with others and create big projects with others that u your self would not have even imagened. :)

Working jobs you don’t like is not the only way to learn that, just working with other people should teach you that, more so if you are rewarded with a common goal

@@ra6865 Not really. What I'm describing is that the best lessons life has to teach us often come from being forced, by circumstances, to choose a path, even if it's a temporary one, we would not otherwise have chosen. There's a reason the term "necessity is the mother of invention" exists. Comfortable people rarely innovate.

@@MikeOzmun Fair enough, most people have that perspective on life, although its related to the system we live in. Wich is all about scarcity, creativity from misery also gave us some realy nasty things like the nuke. Its all about what type of outcome we want. You would obviously have been another person if you took another path in life. But you could still have been as creative as you are today, we dont need anyone to force us. we only need someone/thing to intrigue us enough to make us want to reach specific knowledge. + we do that by interacting with others who challange us in diferent ways. and through them we learn more about our self. We dont want a frictionless world but the amount of friction in this system is making people very desperate and the outcome can be as we have seen very ugly.

@@ra6865 you make huge logical leaps to twist someone's words into meaning something that serves your position. I find that a very disingenuous way to debate a subject. I said nothing about creating from misery. Scarcity is not a product of a system, but a naturally occurring phenomenon. What I think your position fails to take into account is that there can never be any assurance of provision or supply. Discipline is certainly an internal (within one's own mind) development, but the revelation of its necessity is due to external pressures on the individual. How we respond to external pressure is what determines who we become. We do not need a system that gurantees us equal outcome; rather, simply one that assures uninhibited opportunity. This is only possible when we are allowed to be free, in naturally free and flowing market. We are not dogs who need a master to fill our bowl. We are human individuals, who simply need liberty to succeed or fail on our own merits, disabilities notwithstanding. But that is a different subject. Just remember, the government that feeds you is the government that owns you. And, unlike an employer, you can't quit the government.

being creative doesnt mean youre not productive

UBI renders you a slave to the government. It's an idea at first seems utopian but is actually dystopian, there will strings attached to UBI leaving you completely at the mercy of the state. The provider of UBI yields total financial control over the lives of the recipients.

I am highly sympathetic to your perspective on UBI. I also believe we should have some sort of similar system. The crucial element though is the a priori assumption that the mechanics of the production processes are sound and sustainable. If we try to create a UBI system right now, our species will absolutely perish. We know the production and profit mechanisms of a liberal economy *will* lead to catastrophic environmental collapse, not to mention the whole entire system is propped up by mostly slave labor in so-called "underdeveloped" nations. Most of our raw materials, and many of our core daily consumables are still, right now, produced by slave labor. We'd need a radical reorganizing of production, as well as the political apparatuses in our western liberal economy world, in order to have any hope of having a sustainable UBI system. We'd have to find a way out of profit motive, which intrinsically favors the cheapest products at the cheapest cost (thereby inherently running into the slavery problem) and move onto a new system which recognizes and rewards durability and sustainability; quite literally the opposite of what we have now.

That world exists right now. You just don't know how to do it.

I’m imagining that world and it sucks ass. We don’t need more artists. Art schools shouldn’t exist. If you can’t create, don’t. You’re not an artist.

It's also never been cheaper or easier for a single person to produce music. If it's good people reward you by paying.

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I was a workaholic, for years I was hopelessly addicted to workahol

DAVID REYNOLDS Um. This is awkward, but, are you me? Some sort of “Fightclub” me? Damnit David, you’re drunk right now 😬

Must be an alcoholic too

An interesting spin on this topic. And I agree, artists can be insufferable egotists. But so can anyone in any profession--ESPECIALLY if it's a profession.

While true for men, most women have the option of having children which brings the same or even more genuine happiness and purpose, but when your society is against having children then that's a problem. You could also argue that raising children is a Job and a rewarding one at that.

i dont think you understand UBI Even when we hate our jobs, we often take for granted how important a job is to experiencing genuine happiness. - utter nonsense. Many people in jobs are suffering yet because of money are not free to pursue another more rewarding job

Most people shouldn’t be artists. At least, not as a vocation.

you have a lack of understanding of how basic income works. it does not cover every expense, it does not lift you out from poverty. It enables you to escape poverty by being able to afford tuition, by being able to buy food to live, instead of starving for the night because all your money went to rent. Just look at how people spent their covid money. 50 percent of people that received covid money in canada used it on education. Please actually do some research.

He is a genius because of his sceneius

find a job in the field you love dumbass

easy to say when you have millions in the bank...

@@prelude12341 He is talking about a political change to make it possible for everyone.

@@RasberrySkittle you assume everyone has the drive and the will to do what will make them happy.

Alex Hand it is quite handius

hell yeah brother

@RED PILL PORTAL Sounds like you need to cool it on the Qanon shit, buddy. You can't be a global elite who's opposed to free market enterprise. The global elites are the winners of free market enterprise, and as an artist, Brian Eno is certainly not among them. Nor does communism have literally anything to do with any of this.

@RED PILL PORTAL i dont think he thinks that... he means that people should try and work as little as possible so you can spend the rest of your time doing something you want to do, believe me i hate comunists but this isnt communism its just trying to balance your life better

Lmao sweetius

True.