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So artists that do things that are easily copied (every writer, for example) are shit and deserve nothing? Only art that is fundamentally rare is worth anything

So artists that do things that are easily copied (every writer, for example) are shit and deserve nothing? Only art that is fundamentally rare is worth anything? A writer cannot host a concert. There must be a way to derive value from your work when your work isn't physical or temporal (a live concert).

ThomPete 11y ago
They aren't artists they are businesses. They are using technology to resell their original creation. They are selling a product not a piece of art and so of course they are going to be affected by the same technology as it renders that product a commodity more and more. Just as the truck drivers lost their jobs when the CDs didn't need to be transported back and forth anymore so will the artist loose the ability to re-sell what is fundamentally a commodity.