A similar thing is happening in Britain as more and more people claim benefits or live off government and NGO grants. Zero great works of art are being produced by them despite being subsidised to stay at home and indulge their passions and hobbies.
Because they’re free from the competitive marketplace where their work has to prove its own worth in competition with other work in order for them to succeed as artists.
You can’t force people to enjoy art the way you can force people to use other goods and services.
The West, and particularly the sort of idiot communists who think after the revolution they’ll be free to express themselves in a creative utopia, often admire Japanese levels of creativity particularly in anime, video games and comics.
Those creative industries in Japan are run like salary man “black companies” with people working 70 hours a week to incredibly tight deadlines in highly saturated markets where distributors make most of the money. Where you have to display and maintain creative excellence just to get started let alone succeed.
No one is waking up at lunchtime, microwaving breakfast and doodling whilst scrolling social media, and producing great work in those industries.
Weirdly, successful artists in the West rarely speak out in defence of capitalism. They must resent the early years when they were washing dishes and struggling much more than they enjoy being able to make a living doing the thing they love.
In Hamburg the Beatles played 800 hours over 273 nights for £15 a week. There’s no way they would have become the same musicians if they’d been living off Arts Council funding and PIP at home in Liverpool.
What's crazy about socities like Saudi or the Gulf is the native people don't work. It's 50 million people living off oil money.
But it's not like they are creating great art. There's no interesting films. Songs. Literature. Games.
It's just guys hanging out all day