Is It Economically Justifiable to Invest More Money in the Creative Industries?

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The creative industries have made a lot of money pre pandemic. But the people who actually work in those industries, there isn't a tendency to make a large amount of money. So with those two things in mind, can you answer maria's question, is the decision economically justified to invest more money in stem? Well, i think that you to look at is a little bit more closely, because you got a lot of people in what are called the creative industries and they might not have a finearts degree. And then secondly, there's the question of whether it's what matters for the country, or what matters for individuals.

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