Are the Arts a Living or a Hobby? Online Debate No. 4,653

The starting point: “When people observe that teachers have a lot of trouble making ends meet, it’s a social justice problem. We don’t consider ‘teaching’ a hobby … On the other hand, if we were to find out that futures traders have trouble making ends meet it would not be a social justice problem. They would just go do something else, and we’d probably be thrilled.”