Yesterday there was a fairly heated discussion on another messageboard which I frequent, on the subject of welfare fraud. I don't doubt that there are fraudsters out there taking advantage of the system, but to tar all welfare recipients with the same brush is not only unfair, in many cases it is adding insult to injury.
I spent years, literally, trying to find work in my chosen profession before resigning myself to the probability that I would never be more than an amateur artist.
If I value my art on a commercial basis, it has no appreciable value.
I have better things to do with my time. In fact, time is far more interesting to me than the prospect of wasting my life trying to flog dead horses. If you have anything to say, I'll be then.