>>89972
I don't really believe in charity or philanthropy as a systemic solution to problems. It annoys me rich little californian kids piss money up the wall in this fandom and generally culturally dominate the west, and to a lesser degree how rich new york/london bankers and ad-men dominate the world, but my preferred option would be for them to not have money at all. That could be via taxation, or it could be via an economic rebalancing towards currently overlooked areas and industries with better income distribution effects, or it could be through divine intervention. (The concern is not so much the political argument of how when dealing with such a preference, because it won't come about.)
When it comes to building schools and hospitals I'm a strong universalist. There's no point relying on the whims of rich people to pick up the tab because what you'll wind up with is a million schools and hospitals in London, America's western and north-eastern states, etc, while the backwaters that actually need refreshed public services continue to be overlooked. For that you really need a government (or if you hate government, some other body) with a legal obligation to provide service to everyone, everywhere.
Art pricing is stupid and wacky, but it's not really for consumer culture. It gets strange and meta since you can't definitively say furry porn isn't real art because hey, you could sell a printout of furry porn as art to make some weird statement, but as a general rule it isn't, it's a $60 pornographic commodity, like a game. and again, you could probably sell a PS4 game case as an artistic statement, but you'd be going for a completely different audience to the people the game was produced for.
>>89980
Furries do raise a fortune for charity and it only adds to the insufferability of the fandom.
For some reason (probably rooted in mid-2000s fursecution and the way furry has commodified social interaction), furries take economic statistics as a validation of their existence. They love throwing around how many hundreds of thousands of dollars conventions raise for charity, or how many millions of dollars have been collectively spent on fursuits, because it comes as a sign of validation of economic and social power. You laugh at the man in the dog suit, you don't laugh at $1.4 million dollars of economic activity.
>>89985
Furries should be the first target because we're in the furry community. Let the art community solve the problems of the art world and the political community solve political issues.
>If society is the same way in general then it might be a problem with society, not a problem with furries.
Furry is leading society. Furry is at the forefront of the direction society is heading in. I believe it's inevitable, but there's no reason not to go down like the Japanese Empire: Attack! Attack! Attack!
>The solution is not to attack the institution of art as a valuable commodity.
The problem with furry is not so much the commodification of art as it is the way commodity-art has been used to commodify social relations. That's terrible, and that's the future.