Is the title/description "Creative" really just a euphemism for unemployed art school graduate on a trust fund?

very few people have trust funds

they just inherit the money outright

OP you need to stop focusing on other's wealth and bring your self up to our level. Become self-made like me. You can do it. I know you can. Go for it! Namaste. (hint: lifestyle blogging. It's so easy!!)

r1 Half the people I went to college with had a secret parental credit card they never paid for but had a hypothetical limit. They also "got" money at 21 or 24, again at a marriage/family age.

They weren't filthy rich, but today they have fake jobs including:

Real estate developer in Montano - He makes 1 huge fucking log cabin every 5 years.

Indian Motorcycle Restorer - This is actually my cousin.

Ecuadorian B and B proprietor - Wish I was making this up. It's an Eco-Hotel, which is actually just a beach house with a maid. Monkeys are involved.

Furniture restores/designers/resellers - Pretty much all the rest do this. If they are female, it can be jewelry instead of furniture.

Brazilian furniture importer/exporter - This guy actually makes money I think.

yes r3 but those aren't trust funds

r2 Van life/small house/restoring a house/marital vacation blogs are a huge step down for this group. I know you are being facetious, and I use fancy words, but the really sophisticated ones have no social media presence and don't try to promote coconut water or fig bars.

In fact, no source of income, no drug dealing, and no flipping of real estate (the grossest thing ever).

r4 I am aware of the semantics of which you speak. However, free family money in the form of a contractual and structured disbursement pattern is good enough for me. I am talking about rich people, not old money.

A trustifarian is a modern construct that we all understand. Very few of these have estate based trusts, but they do get money every month to live on. A trust fund. Common nomenclature.

[quote]Van life/small house

Would be a step down for me too. Were would the servants stay? (although with covid starting up again I may have to lay them off and have Apple and the boy take over the household duties again plus I think Blythe may know how to work that machine we have were you put the dirty clothes in and they come out clean.)

There is nothing you can do about this class of people, OP? What's the point. Also they can be fun friends and lovers when one is young. Often stress free and good looking. And don't knock monied hipster culture in 2nd tier Spanish cities.

Finally, there is a bit of luck and talent involved - not always trust funds. Some "artisan" level creatives luck into lucrative business tracks. I know plenty of unknown creatives who have made a good living with their pretentious small scale production or services.

r7 Yeah...pretending is fun. For them too. Blythe Danner. Just maybe instead of "creative" they just get real about their fake jobs. I just think it's a stupid term, like "graphic designer" for a dude that makes HTML template websites or real estate developer/flipper for a slumlord. Half the country under the age of thirty is a "creative" on Instagram.

Apple is a completely reasonable stupid name for that kid. It just got the whole "I'm going to have a real job" thing out of the way immediately. Net worth over 100 million? Fine. Apple. Space Commander C13. Grindr Monk 5000? Ok.

No need for a solid biblical name.

Real trust funds are not rare in certain circles.

r8 Ok, but how do you know? My cousin is one of the leading motorcycle restorers in the USA. He probably clears about minus 12k a year.

CREATIVE IS AN ADJECTIVE.

I am not upset or jealous. It's their life and money. Just curious about the lying. Creative isn't a fucking job or even a description. It's like a construction laborer giving himself the title of STRONG.

Q. What do you do for a living?

A. I'm a Strong. Freelance Strong.

They don't give a shit about your little snit fit over nomenclature.

r12 Oh but they do. I have a real job that I love. They don't like talking about work. It's always wakeboarding or a new brand of popcorn seltzer water rum or some shit. They are rich highly medicated unemployed people, and feel useless inside.

They need to put "Unemployed Bohemian Nomad" on their Instragram accounts.

Also, "My great grandfather invented White Out or The Clapper" or whatever it was.

Yet you sound so jealous of them r13.

OP/R13 is spot on. The "creatives" (aka unemployed grifters) on this thread are obviously triggered at being exposed.

[R7], you think Apple is a widdle pretentious? What about Tara Gabriel Galaxy Gramophone Getty, the son of Talitha Getty (RIP)? The dope was sizzling when she birthed that baby!

The most important thing to ‘creatives’ is the ability to use that word as a noun to make the adjective exclusionary, i.e., we are creative; you are not.

^Exactly. It's an identity now. It's not an activity you are engaged in at any given moment, or an inclination to be an artistic person. It's who you ARE.

"Creatives" are to artists what Trans are to LGBTQIA+++, I e.: non-contributors, hijakers of the work of others.

An artist is an artist, a musician a musician, a sculptor a sculptor, a performance artist a performance artist, an art director for and agency is just that, and a copywriter, a studio ceramacist, a dancer, an actor, a writer, a cinematographer, an interior designer, a landscape designer... All are creative occupations, none are well-deserved by the catchall "creatives."

"Creatives" are the people who blow into some beautiful or gritty (or both) city, place a hundred posts in a week on the "Expats in XYZ City" online group, looking for a place to live, tips on the coolest co-working spot, suggestions for hip coffee shops to hang out in ("with free wifi!"): they're always down to meet "other cool internationals for drinks" and maybe live music; they ask a 1000bwuestions about the coolest this and the most obscure scenes; they call themselves creatives AND entrepreneurs and claim to have a chain of start-ups behind them (no one said they were successful); they will bore you to buts about how bored they were at Berghain but their friend took them instead to the coolest place ever!

In short they are less creative than an accountant from one of the Big 4, they are just desperate to be seen as hip. And they are typically smart enough to keep in motion (Cáceres is the new Malaga of the art scene! Malaga is dead!) because their act wears thin quite quickly. Six week in one place and they're on to another, hitting up the Expats boards to see if anyone who's as cool as they are wants to meet up for drinks and to share tips on co-working, and secret music venues.

I've known lots of "creatives" and almost none of them were art school grads or trust funders.

I've also known a lot of art school grads and trust funders (or family money sense) who were creative, and their ideas or their talents were good enough to support them - without a heavy dose of self-branding and self-promotion.