The System Is Broken. You Still Have Power.
About this episode
The episode explores the balance between systemic issues and individual responsibility in the creative industries, discussing how artists can navigate challenges while maintaining hope and empowerment.
Is the problem systemic, or individual? In this episode, we sit with the messy middle. Creative industries are full of scarcity, gatekeeping, bad incentives, exploitation, and cooked economics. But if we only talk about the broken system, artists are left feeling powerless. And if we only talk about personal responsibility, we ignore the real structures making everything harder. So where does that leave us? We talk about making art on hard mode, the patronising advice successful artists give, why hope matters, and how artists can critique the system while still building lives, careers, and work they believe in. Order Amie’s book We Need Your Art: https://www.amiemcnee.com/order-we-need-your-art-book-amie-mcnee Read Amie’s Substack: https://substack.com/@amiemcnee
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