I'm not sure I get this argument. Of course artists would rather be paid for product than time, and of course they want the aberration to continue. The world

I'm not sure I get this argument. Of course artists would rather be paid for product than time, and of course they want the aberration to continue. The world of tech would be pretty different if the "aberration" of stock options were eliminated, and everyone was paid only by the hour. But it goes further than ISOs to actual product revenues - I would be pretty sad (and much less well off) if I could only charge by the hour for writing software vs collecting revenues for software I already wrote.