Or, Patreon. You pay creators on an ongoing basis to produce content at a rate you find acceptable for the amount you pay them. Patronage does away with the ill

Or, Patreon. You pay creators on an ongoing basis to produce content at a rate you find acceptable for the amount you pay them. Patronage does away with the illogic of artificial scarcity and subjects artistic work to the same standards as any other work. That is, ongoing payment entails ongoing labor. People pay you to write songs, to travel and perform songs, instead of paying you to have once written a song at some indeterminate point in the past. Songs that are already made have no scarcity and hence no inherent value, but your labor to perform them and to write new songs does, so that's what you should logically be paid for. The degree of silliness to artificial scarcity becomes apparent when you try to apply it to any other labor. If an investigative reporter uncovers corruption at city hall, does he deserve a royalty every time you tell someone and hence copy the fruits of his labor? Does a meteorologist when you freely share his forecast? Should the doctor who invents a new surgical technique get a percentage every time it's used to save someone's life?