Quite the opposite in fact. Throughout history the most successful artists have been the well funded ones.

The most miserable people I've known were rich people's children. Depression is more about the lack of hope than money.

You probably don't know very many poor people then, because poverty, food insecurity, physical insecurity, homelessness, job loss are all very common depression triggers. It's just that these cases don't make the front page of newspapers at the same rate as celebrities committing suicide.

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delichon 2 hours ago | parent [-]

The ones I knew weren't celebrities, they were friendless and isolated and consumed with self disgust.

Poor people trapped in unemployment have something in common with rich kids trapped in lethargy. A kind of spiritual constipation.

	▲	michaelscott an hour ago \| parent [-]
		No, more like literal survival. In these conditions there is no mental bandwidth for things like spiritual constipation

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krapp 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

When you're poor in a capitalist society, money is hope.