Will paying your spouse your royalties cause your dead corpse to rise from the grave and write another book? Copyright in the USA can only be used to benefit th

Will paying your spouse your royalties cause your dead corpse to rise from the grave and write another book? Copyright in the USA can only be used to benefit the artist who produced the art, so that they will make more art. Separately, society ought to not force artists to starve or sacrifice or be spouse-supported simply to be artists.