>Not if they're soliciting for submissions, like publishers and other businesses do. How can you be this clueless? Nobody's going to just cold-call up some random rich guy and offer their art.


I can already imagine Bill Gates posting add " looking to an artist to draw a series of pictures of lolis being raped by clowns.
Applicants, please send your portfolios for review to this address"

How you can be so clueless yourself to say such ridiculous proposals that are never going to work
if the rich guy wants to be amused he can just open his browser and find whatever he desires on the internet without bothering with all that extensive process.

the only reason why you still may want to do something yourself or hire someone is that you want to realize some of your own fantasies
otherwise you just download it.

>If society heads down this path, it'll develop a system for direct patronage just like it used to be centuries ago.


and if that will happen art will be still shared by those patrons and artists for free just like it was from the very beginning. the purpose to hire an artist was to show his art to everyone not to hide it in your basement


>Things don't become true just because you say them.


Same is valid for you and your claims on that aspect are plain ridiculous.
we were talking not about your personal fear but about sharing artwork in general and you proved yourself wrong because you do share your work regardless of the fact that you are not being paid.
other people do same and result is billions of free works available