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And you, of course, are able to perfectly identify which art is bad. You can look at a piece of art and determine that nobody anywhere will ever gain anything from it's existence.

Woo! High Five!

Most job applicants suck. That's true with techies, with salesmen, with everything I've ever hired for. I'll happily concede that small businesses often have trouble hiring outside…

And art has no societal or historical importance? In case you didn't notice (which you apparently didn't), my post was satire. Of course incremental progress has value, and even fa…

You see this all the time with professors. So many of them sit in their offices and for years at a time create essentially nothing of value for months or years at a time. They go d…

It would be a comment on your interpretation of his work. It would say nothing about your opinion of the artist as a person. It would in no way say 'i look down upon the artist' or…

He used hundreds of hours of his time. What makes you think he would've refrained from paying a few extra dollars for the bandwidth?

I make maple syrup by hand. It requires a huge amount of physical labor, as well as a fairly expensive evaporator and as well as a small building devoted to that single purpose. Th…

But in either case, you're not saying "I look down on the artist."

Not every MBA is lousy and incapable of seeing the forest for the trees, even though lots of startup techs think so. Not every tech is lousy and incapable of understanding that IT …

When you don't understand a piece of art, do you say that you don't understand that the artist was trying to say... or do you say "I look down upon the artist." I'm guessing you're…

It's not ironic. Calling somebody an asshole isn't a positional declaration. It does not say you are better or worse than them, just that they are an asshole. Presumably you have f…

Let me try again: Only a supremely self-involved, judgmental, narcissistic asshole would think it's appropriate to look down on others for having different ideas about how they wan…