> Right. There are some amazing writers out there who are true artists and yet have to subsidize their writing with traditional employment. The writing far outv

> Right. There are some amazing writers out there who are true artists and yet have to subsidize their writing with traditional employment. The writing far outvalues the other-job output. My "completely free" opinion applies more to people writing informative content based on their successes and experiences separate from the writing it self. It definitely doesn't apply for those who are writing for the sake of writing as a creative work, where the "other" job is just a means. In this case it's back to the same question, and it may even suit the content more because it's more about what people enjoy to read than what is objectively "good" of "useful", in which case voting with your monkey seems not to corrupt as much... then again there is hollywood and pop music so scratch that. I think the best ideas about for this now are things like patreon - where the focus is more on encouraging author creativity rather than monetisation of past works like copyright. However this still has it's downsides... e.g it suits and encourages continuous streams of small pieces of works more than masterpiece style sized works.