You could call it art for art’s sake — plus $1,000 a month.
San Francisco plans to start paying 130 local artists $1,000 a month starting in May through the fall in a pilot program announced on Thursday.
It follows other so-called “universal basic income” efforts being launched in California amid the coronavirus pandemic.
“From the first day the pandemic arrived in San Francisco, we knew that this health crisis would impact artists, and artists of color in particular,” Mayor London Breed said Thursday while announcing the program, FOX 2 of the Bay Area reported.
Breed said the city’s artists “make San Francisco special, and bring so much life and energy to our city. The arts are critical to our local economy and are an essential part of our long-term recovery. If we help the arts recover, the arts will help San Francisco recover.”
Who needs artists ??? Worthless pieces of crap
So they are going to pay the guy who craps on the sidewalk and smears it around with his hands that claims to the cops he is an artist? He is well known around San Fran by Law enforcement.