>>US>>skill ceiling: literally infinite>>career ceiling: Riot senior or OnlyFans feet pics>>health insurance? lol just don’t get sick>>0 6 figures in 3 years if you’re good + live in LA>>or 0 for 15 years in medical + art debt>>one viral tweet = $100k/month>>one ambulance ride = selling your tablet on eBay>>difficulty: lottery with permadeath>>daily life:>>9–5 soul crusher get home collapse>>portfolio blog live since 2021>>last update: hand study>>ASIA>>skill ceiling: god-tier>>career ceiling: sub-assistant for life unless daddy is director>>better than 99% of western pros by 23 still earn $28k>>grind doesn’t matter, bloodline does>>difficulty: satan’s talent waste disposal>>daily life:>>>arrive 9 leave when sun rises>>>sleep 3h on office sofa>>>pixiv mogged by 19yo nepo kid>>>weekend comms client ghosts>>EU>>skill ceiling: high mid>>career ceiling: state-funded eternal mid>>never homeless, never famous outside your bubble>>global success = move to USA>>difficulty: god-tier survival, impossible “make it”>>daily life:>>>800€/month from government>>>8 german dentists as furry clients>>>tries to sell prints>>>“sorry we don’t do capitalism here”>>THIRD WORLD>>skill ceiling: infinite (survival grind)>>career ceiling: whatever the west pays>>$1.5k/month = local millionaire>>one blackout = lose everything>>difficulty: permadeath rogue-like>>daily life:>>>cracked 2016 Huion>>>internet roulette>>>$500 emergency comm>>>called sweatshop by westerners who can’t fill $40 slots
Life is like a video game
>>7823779>third world artist>bank wont let you open an account
>>7823779being professional artist is retardest idea in 2020+just get another job or wish another person give you a job
>>7823788dude, the whole present global economy is based on "art", wich is just marketing. The visual creation and presentation of anything and everything nowadays, monetized through the infinite variety of screen markets. And its gonna get worse. Anyone can sweep floors.Not just anyone can fabricate or manage visual products, if you know how, you may have a golden ticket, in a world where the reality of things worth nothing.
>>7823788wrong, it's never made more sense since the 80s because making money in the first place is worthless when your savings won't be worth shit, buying a house is a pipe dream and the government is giving your taxes to people trying to automate every job on the planet
Another doomer thread
>>7823779I mean, a lot of third world and Asian countries have issues with paypal, payoneer, wise, international wire transfer in general. That’s a big disadvantage. We had too many horror stories of paypal just closing their account randomly for example.
>>7823779Maybe asia if you stay there and try to be a mangaka, just make shitty ai looking drawings and get a bajitrillion likes on twitter.
>>7823782thirdies think the US is like a high level grinding zone where you get more gold per mob killed.The truth is the average american is poor as shit and has no access to the supposed first world services that other countries lack.
>>7823788what career are you even supposed to go into these days if you're at an age where you're deciding whether to go for art professionally? people act like art is finished, but art was always a crapshoot and a lottery, now everything else also looks like a crapshoot with uncertain future
>>7824056We are rich. Everyone single one of us in this country benefits from what was built. From the roads (most backwater countries don’t have clean, paved roads), to the sewage system, to the electricity having lights on every corner, high rise marvels in the sky carrying cords. Everything taken for granted. And most of all, almost everyone has a phone and it’s easier than ever to just draw on the phone. It’s impossible to die of starvation in America unless your brain dead retarded or literally lazy to walk to a soup kitchen. Thank God every single day you were born American.
>>7824090>From the roads (most backwater countries don’t have clean, paved roads), to the sewage system, to the electricity having lights on every corner, high rise marvels in the sky carrying cordsHoly shit, is America that bad now?
>>7824094I have no idea what you’re talking about. I live in Boca, it’s great here. I’m surrounded by wealth.
>>7824096Nigger, you think paved roads, sewers and street lights are first world.
saved this from a previous thread
>>7824098Does India or South America or Africa look like Boca Raton? Mmm, no. I love being American.
>>7824107>do regions known for extreme inequality have posh places for the posh part of the population to live in?No, they all live in slums just like all of USA lives in Appalachian shacks and trailer camps, everyone knows this.
>>7824115I lived in a trailer for a short while when I was a kid and it wasn’t half bad because I had a nice, big library close by. Even when I moved away that library was still the best library I’ve been in. And then there were the stray cats that came by all the time. The neighbors…not so good. Point is, just because someone is living in a trailer camp in America doesn’t mean they’re automatically poor and stripped from things. And still a better living condition than all of India. If it wasn’t the library I’d find peace with all the mildew and old trees and owls. Central Florida is something else entirely.
>>7824121Moss I mean wtf. Lots of moss.
>>782410720 years ago, "third world" meant slavs, arabs and the like, basically anything slightly poorer than core Western world. Things must be dire if you've gone from gloating over europoors to "well at least I'm not indian" lmao
>>7824104That's quite literally Poland
>>7823779Being a Third worlder doesnt sound too bad
living in the third world makes an art career easy since you only need a little bit of USD to cover all your expenses. there's a reason most of these popular artists on social media all live in third world countries. i often wonder what the art space would look like if the entire world wasn't using USD on the internet but their own currencies.
>>7824056in america you get a job, show up and get paidin the third world you can't get a job: if you get a job, you do the job of 6 people, and your boss will steal your wages
>>7824096river is better.
>>7824170>if you get a job, you do the job of 6 peopleTrue.>and your boss will steal your wagesFalse.
>>7823779What the fuck are you talking about?Do not become an artist, hoping to earn money.It'll suck the life out of you and it's not a reliable way to earn money.Have a good, stable job and just doodle in the meantime.
>>7824060It’s a crab “I suffered to you have to as well” mentality, ignore them. It’s all luck everywhere you go, make your dream a reality or die trying. At least the failure will be on you and not on some sociopathic “boss” who lays you off randomly to save 5$/hr.
