Right, and by that same logic, the author was just exploited by the buyers of Juicer, who thought they could make more money off his IP than they paid him for i

Right, and by that same logic, the author was just exploited by the buyers of Juicer, who thought they could make more money off his IP than they paid him for it. There is no such thing as “true value”. Value is only what other people are willing to pay for something. Brad Pitt can make more money squinting into a camera holding a pair of sunglasses for 5 minutes, than a laborer might make in his whole life. But that’s because Brad Pitt makes the sunglass company more money by doing so. By all means let’s clean up systemic issues that encourage an uneven playing field, but by “being exploited” we’ve increased the size of the pie for (almost) everyone in a way never before seen in history.