The whole discussion regarding artists and retraining, particularly in other part-time fields, is odd to me because it assumes that artists are primarily living off art as their sole income, which centres it as an argument about upper class creatives [...]

- again ignoring that working-class people are artists, and the majority of working-class artists hold down another job anyway. It's all discussed as if its some sort of oddity or national service for artists to earn elsewhere. [...]

I'm sorry but the working-class don't get to do that, for us it's full-time artists, full-time other job. If I gave my creative career part-time effort I'd get nowhere. The working class have to work harder anyway, we don't have money and connections doing the heavy lifting.

Plus, if I only had a part-time job to supplement my creative career my family would starve.

We've already retrained as labourers, teachers, tradespeople, baristas, retail workers, etc.

We're already juggling.