Do creative Jamaicans have less bills THAN YOU?

In Jamaica times are hard up like basically anywhere else. In fact there is a popular saying that when America sneezes, Jamaica catches a cold.

Far too many Jamaican creative people are migrating, as the easier way out. WHY? Numerous outstanding artists complain about ‘being taken advantage of.’
Jamaicans need to wise up about the arts. You enter a workplace, you do outstandingly well and people want to pay you less than other persons from say an academic institution. How odd?
Numerous women like myself go to be interviewed, or complete a assignment, and a man flicks out his private tool to add to the pay — mind you he wants o pay less. Mind you we dress like Mother Teresa herself to be interviewed. One wonders!
REcent enough I did work for someone that created results beyond their expectations, and they wanted to offer sex as part of the pay. Do we therefore start artful killing. Dare not– but lets be realistic as Jamaicans?

WHY…

?”WHY on earth would ppl want you to work for free or a ‘smalls’ … Doesn’t everyone deserve to be freed from slavery? Did you or any creative person you know pay a smalls for EDUCATION? Does being creative allow a discount on BILLS somehow? FREE CREATIVITY and let creative live creatively! This note ye— ACADEMICS has no use without a practical outworking.. How does one do so without creativity? Let creative live by paying their worth…

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