Under the socialist system, Van Gogh's fate could have been different. Some government official would have asked some famous painters (whom Van Gogh surely wouldn't even have considered artists) if that young man, a bit crazy, or completely insane, was really a painter worth subsidizing. And they would surely have replied: "No, he's not a painter; he's not an artist; he's nothing but a creature who wastes paint", and would have sent him to work in a dairy industry, or to an insane asylum. All...