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> No money and people who need to eat have to dig ditches instead of creating. Which is why no creative works exist from before the invention of copyright laws
by Aaargh20318 5y ago
> No money and people who need to eat have to dig ditches instead of creating.
Which is why no creative works exist from before the invention of copyright laws. Walk into any library, concert hall, art museum or theater and you won’t find any works from before copyright.
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- falcolas 5y agoPaying only the existing writers in the us a median wage would cost patrons around 2.2 billion dollars* a year. I don’t see this being tenable, not without a frankly absurd loss of diversity in writing. * ~44k writers, with $50k wages. Note that this is below the current median earnings for authors.
- mlyle 5y agoSure, patronage systems worked on a small scale. I don't think they would work in our society. Yes, not all art or literature would stop, but the number of people who could pursue it as a profession would drop precipitously.