Yes but half of the time the value is in the negative numbers and the Zero has also a value. Art is derived from the latin word artem which means skill, craft or power. Artem is accusative singular of ars which means Skill or Sciences or something that is skillfull made. Exercitatio artem parat. ( Practice makes the Art (master).) Therefore the word art should be only used in connection to something that requires quite the skill to make. Everything that is made in our world is made by a human (i exclude here Animals and AI), but the degree of skills is quite variable. Then we can apply numeric values to the required skill to accomplish a task, where Zero would be the average, while any skillful execution or more than average kognitive kapacities is in the positiv numbers, the work of the left hand or stupidity would have then negative values. Therefore can state that modern art is a decrement to the world and mankind.
This is a nice example of a brain rot the aforementioned obsession with productivity creates. (with all your respect). If you were correct then good artist would always create good art. Proofing one skill by creating a good art once would mean that person should be able to always create art with the same quality or better in the future. This is self evidently absurd. Furthermore they are also many things that require skills like sports or doing surgery which aren't art. Another unfortunate implication of your assumptions is that more skilled artist would always create a better art than less skilled one, which is also wrong, there is a lot of amateur artist who pours heart in their art and manage to create something better than artist which are more skilled.
The only way you can defend your nonsense is by using a mix of circular logic and non sequitur: a person created better art, so they have more skills, therefore art is all about skills. You created this incoherent mess only to rationalize your disdain for the modern art. I don't need this construction to just say that modern art isn't to my taste. The same way I don't need to find some hidden productivity value of RPG to say that I love them and that's enough for me.
Yeah and therefore Louvre is filled with "art"pieces made by dumb and dumber and the sistine chapel was painted by 6 year olds. While the Veit-Stoss-altar was made by Baca, who came down from his mountain and took the time off from his watching the cows and chewing on grass.
Also you commit the mistake here by assuming that an ability can be only risen and not have day-to-day oscillating quality or be even lost. Abilities are dependent on different factors but the trained skill is a necessity and someone who is not capable and skilled will never be capable and skilled, unless he trains his art. Therefore someone who has not the skill, simply told does not have the skill to play with the big boys and this is applies to every higher department of human endeavour. Because nothing comes from nothing and nothing disappears without a trace.
(A sentence that you can tattoo on your arm or forehead and alone the knowledge of this sentence will make you smarter.)
The definition of artem is skill if you would have learned latin, then you would understand this. But i speak guilt the polish commie education system for your blunder.
If someone never has trained martial arts, then he will never win in UFC. If someone never has trained his muscles then he will never win in the strongman competition. If someone has never played soccer, then he will never win a FIFA WC. If someone has never played a piano, then he will never play Chopin. If you want to be a good physicist then you have to study physics for at least 5 years. If you want to be a good programmer then you have to write programs for at least 10k hours. If you want to be a good fighter then you have to train true martial arts for years.
Now think this carefully over.
Every good book is written by someone who has read good books and understands what makes them good (implies analysis of the works) and has trained his writing style. Every musical masterpiece was written by someone who knew good music and understood what made them good and played himself an instrument.
Now to your nonsense circular and none sequitor logic example: a person created better art, so they have more skills, therefore art is all about skills.
Art derives from Skill ( (see latin and examples above ) as the Premiss for A). A person is more skilled (in execution (manual dexterity) and cognitive capabilities) in the art, therefore the person has created better Art.
With Modus ponendo ponens:
A (Person is more skilled.), B (Person has created better Art.): (A And (A->B))->B (A is valid and A implicates B therefore follows B)
Art is not an act of accident, but a summeration of previous acquired skills and experience.
I do not hate modern art and therefore try to justify my hate towards it. I love skills, science, rationality and knowledge, therefore i hate the modern art, postmodernism, communism (marxism in any form), national socialism and islam. (Because this idiotologies are the enemies of my beloved things.) If you are not in awe, when you witness the beauty of true art and creativity and if you cannot comprehend the way that has lead to its creation, then you will not understand my position.
In case of the productivity, it is that 20% of humans make 80% of worlds production
That's why richest dozen or so people own as much as half of the word population? Truly they have to move faster than light to archive such level of productivity, they need to consult NASA RIGHT NOW!
They understand how markets work, which implies they are more skilled and capable than others in the finance and/or innovation sector. They have also spend half of the lives working towards this position while other were not as capable and did invest their time as smart.
Bezos as an example has studied computer science and after his B.Sc. has worked in FITEL (mobile communication), Bankers Trust and D.E. Shaw & Co and there he has developed the idea fo Online Booktrading. In 1994 he founded Amazon.com.
Look at worlds richest people and see how they have arrived at their position in life, before you make such comments. And yes Bezos is making his own NASA, while you sound just jealous and this is a sin according to a religious book. And this sin is also the basis of communism, that wants to take away from the capable people and give it to the idiots. So instead of being jealous praise their skills and capabilities, while you are honing yours.
Now think what does that mean and also it is the true reason why communism does not work.
As we all know, there could only be Somalia or USRR. No other country have ever existed, they are all lies made by much evil intellectuals. Don't believe your own eyes.
I'm not talking here about true Communisc and Real Socialism Countries. I'm talking here about the principle of productivity and the reward system as in ressource distribution. If you are not rewarded for your endeavours, then you will not try and this will result in even further decline of the overall productivity. (A good horse jumps only as high as it has to.) A fucking "Workman's Hero" medal and a sweaty handshake is not a reward, but an insult.
An unproductive system cannot compete with an productive one. In the end a unproductive system will become even more unproductive, then it will run out of the ressources and this will lead to cannibalization of the base of the system. The 20/80 principle is why communism does not work.