Oh, I understand your point perfectly. It’s you who doesn’t get it, because you still haven’t answered the question. In your original post you wrote that “nobody should be guaranteed a job on the backs of the tax payers” – but once I pointed out (and you agreed) that your job depends on the tax payers, now you’re saying, “Nobody should be guaranteed a job on the backs of the tax payers…except for me because construction is really important.”

I don’t dispute that construction is important. I’m simply asking you to explain the hypocrisy of your original statement. Let me give you a hint: “Yeah, I see, all of our jobs depend on tax payers to some extent, so in the future I’ll try to be more open minded about the value all people bring to our society, even artists.” Does that help?