The other side of the coin is that creating a market for creative work optimizes for commercializability, not necessarily any other attributes we'd consciously

The other side of the coin is that creating a market for creative work optimizes for commercializability, not necessarily any other attributes we'd consciously prefer. How much effort in the medical industry is devoted to me-too treatments that don't really expand our therapeutic vocabulary? How many writers were focusing on writing Law & Order: Food Truck Inspectors Unit instead of something more distinctive? I think that maybe we need to look into UBI for creatives: we'll pay you a comfortable living as long as you're regularly producing some deliverables/signs of progress, but you don't get to drag everyone else down with patents and copyrights when you're done. We could probably finance a lot of singers at 50k per year for the cost of one Rolling Stones tour.