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artists, like entrepreneurs, hope to gain new opportunities from the shifting socio-economic circumstances in the western world. it seems their real life creativity and street-smarts will be put to the test, and the question of "hunger" will once again be used in the literal sense, not merely as a measure for the artists' ambition. dog eat dog - but i wonder - have we not surpassed the romantic stance that dictates an artist should be inspired by the suffering he must endure in his own life?