In the contemporary era, there is an ongoing debate surrounding whether the government should divert the budget in the arts or the social purposes like health and education. From my viewpoint, I lean toward the latter, and this essay will elaborate further on both sides of the argument.
One perspective favoring investing in arts centered around economic development. To clarify, artworks which are created by famous talented artists arouse the upper class willing to pay for those masterpieces. This, in turn, leads to national or even international exchanges for artworks, contributing to economic growth. Furthermore, advocates contend that facilitating restoring sophisticated artworks or regenerating damaged ones can appeal global tourists coming to admire, spurring the service industries like travel, entertainment owning to burgeoning visitors’ demands. For example in countries like France and Italy where both governments have recently witnessed the rapidly economic growth thanks to the famous artworks like Mona Lisa and Last Supper attracting a large number of visitors.
However, I believe that governmental funds should be diverted into public purposes. One benefit of this is securing countries economic growth. Specifically, if residents are beneficial from a good living standard like healthcare contributing to a good mental and physical health, the golden age can be retained in a long time translating into reinforcing skilled workforce in purpose of devoting for national development. A case in point is Vietnam where abundant labors are beneficial from developed countries facing with aging population problem like Japan and Korea, significantly increasing their income as well as government’s. This leads to the second point is necessity in focusing on education in order to gain accomplished labors which requires improvement in infrastructure and teaching quality, facilitating friendly competitive environment for students to strive and become competent individuals for countries. A good illustration of this is gifted students who receive total scholarships from famous universities from other nations, tend to return with a view to supporting their countries by updated knowledge and understanding.
To recapitulate, while investing in arts hold its own merits, I convinced that a more holistic approach integrating diverting funds into healthcare and education is a long-term fix for national development.