BREAD

All official statistics agree that pouring money into culture and the arts returns a much larger multiple of resources. Art is not a liability, it is an asset, and worthier than many alternative allocations cheered by conventional economics. Accordingly, portraying the basic alimentary good, or rather its significant, points to a whole range of substantial meanings: art is as indispensable and natural as bread, it keeps individual and societies alive, and fosters prosperity through creativity. Paraphrasing Adam Smith, the Wealth of Nations, and their aesthetic and moral rescue, are here.