As for the artists, they merely pander to the little less than ignoble tastes of the Plutocracy.
"But after all, wealth in itself is not the real power; it is the means to power, and power is governmental.

Who controls the government to-day?
The proletariat with its twenty millions engaged in occupations?
Even you laugh at the idea.

Does the middle class, with its eight million occupied members?
No more than the proletariat.

Who, then, controls the government?
The Plutocracy, with its paltry quarter of a million of occupied members.

But this quarter of a million does not control the government, though it renders yeoman service.