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Well, kinda. Their cost of production is lower partly because they don't have to pay an artist enough to feed themselves. Your costs are always lower when you don't pay for stuff that those playing by the rules do.

Art takes time, money and creativity to make. Of course that's going to be more expensive than downloading something someone else made and printing it out. Accounting for the time and costs that go into making art isn't a high markup, it's being paid for your labour.

It's too low on the priority list. Rent, bills, food etc. all come first.

I only buy e.g. video games that are exceptionally enjoyable and exceptionally niche or an album on bandcamp of an artist who's work I particularly enjoy with exceptionally few plays where 1 sale might make a difference, and even then I usually limit any such spend in total to a max of £20 at most, and it's something I would only spend once a month at most, normally rarer.

Higher prices are a deterrent.

For instance when I was trying to leave Spotify, I had no good piracy sources for one of the albums from my Spotify library, so I went to the artist's page on bandcamp and it was priced at £12 or something as minimum, when she was some indie Lana del Rey type "moan to a synth a bit" and it was nothing special, just decent vocals. Long story short I just shrugged, removed the song from my playlists both on Spotify and locally and now I no longer remember who the artist in question was, I instead bought the entire discography of a different, more unique artist at £2 per album.

As for like, drawings/paintings, I intrinsically see them as having almost zero value and cannot see myself ever paying for one, I would sooner invest in a printer and print something off Google images for a poster than anything else If I even could put up posters without running afoul of the rental agreement. On an emotional level - when I grew up, all images were just something on the internet that was free, watermarks and Shutterstock meant to prevent you from right clicking and saving an image and all that crap to me are seen as enshittification.

I would definitely never buy art for art's sake, it would be highly specific things. Out of all the people I know IRL, I'm basically the only one who considers paying for art generally, which probably has something to do with the fact I'm sympathetic because I'm a hobbyist musician. In fact most people I know don't even seem to have the attention span for music at all anymore, they just don't listen to any music at all (which isn't my fault I swear lol).