So I'm an animator that draws a couple comics. Baby Zoomer me bought into the liberal do what you love, you won't work a day in your life shit and wanted to become some artsy handicraftsman to avoid the 'boredom' of 'normal' work. When online art monetization started booming that accelerated things.

I am not particularly interested in actively making propaganda; because premeditating an outcome in that way to less personal/complex art in my attempts. I'd like to disseminate my work to the people it might concern. But it feels necessary to accumulate capital. And yet if one accumulates capital that would change my relation to it and they risk being incentivised to support the current superstructure. A lot of Imperial core/periphery artists also largely dislike capitalism when it concerns bourgeois interests (e.g. IP law/AI); even if they don't have any IP they can feasibly exploit.

Are there any artists here who have experience with tackling this contradiction in their own work? I'm aware that you got people like Boots Riley who are outwardly communist filmmakers, but I feel like there must be other things for an artist to aspire to than owning the capital to conventionally distribute your art in that format/scale.