if you could sell poems and stories to local journals for $25 to $50 each depending on length, and your monthly rent was $50 to $250 depending on how swanky of a 'pad' you wanted, you can see how being a freelance 'artist' was a much more viable way to live.

and people did that. commercial rent was also cheaper in urban areas. post-WWII urban america had all kinds of random artsy stores run by younger people or bored older ladies who put their home-made macramé and papier-mâché objects for sale alongside whatever the newer kids were making.

this is no longer happening. the 'art scene' is actually substantially smaller per capita today than in the 50's, which i suspect is not something that most people realize. computer and technological abundance has actually led to the more aggressive tracking and financialization of 'under-priced' neighborhoods. the 50's were far too 'inefficient' from that standpoint to survive the information economy.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5702302&forum_id=2:#48797325)

Yeah, it's driven by society funneling monopoly money to women, and then women playing musical chairs with that monopoly money. But it's something

Also a shockingly large online market for pornographic smut written for women. Lots of small authors making a living selling $3 e-books on Amazon about vampires and orangutans consensually raping homely women

Basically, women are 180

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5702302&forum_id=2:#48797341)