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		pjc50 on Dec 4, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: YouTube top earners: A seven-year-old making $22M You'd be surprised. There's a reason there's a band called UB40. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/dole-queue-blues-that-gav... (not "government funded" in the grant sense, but the old UK unemployment benefit worked a lot more like a basic income)

WalterBright on Dec 4, 2018 [–]

I wouldn't call that government funding of art. They were not given money in exchange for producing art. They were just given money.

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