Another way of solving this problem is to first make sure every person in society has what they need for survival without needing to pay for it. Then you don’t

Another way of solving this problem is to first make sure every person in society has what they need for survival without needing to pay for it. Then you don’t have to pay artists anything and they can do what they enjoy and survive and we can all benefit from the way that computers can duplicate value for free. It’s a kind of inside out or upside down economics that I have been thinking about a lot lately. And personally I think this can be done in a totally voluntary way without a state drawing taxes and paying a UBI (though a UBI may help cut a path towards this future).