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But then we need a new system, for example governments could pay writers a salary to create, rather than have them rely on selling books.
by Synaesthesia 7y ago
But then we need a new system, for example governments could pay writers a salary to create, rather than have them rely on selling books.
- jhbadger 7y agoThat's how it worked in the Soviet Union. Official writers were paid by the government (there were of course unofficial writers passing their work via illegal self-published "samizdat" versions, and some writers lived in both worlds). The problem was the government wasn't too keen on publishing works critical of it.
- breck 7y agoThe software industry is already pioneering this new system. For example, many companies pay developers to write useful free open source software in lieu of ephemeral marketing spend. As the saying goes, the future is here, just not evenly distributed.