Paying 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 f

Paying 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.