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You are simply, flat-out, wrong. You do NOT need a way for authors to get paid and this idea is already thoroughly disproven. Wikipedia gets written. Academic
by jrm4 4y ago
You are simply, flat-out, wrong.
You do NOT need a way for authors to get paid and this idea is already thoroughly disproven. Wikipedia gets written. Academic articles get written, fan-fiction gets written.
Now we can discuss particulars about volume and quality and distribution. But we already see that a GREAT DEAL of EXCELLENT KNOWLEDGE has been created, written and distributed without strong, or occasionally ANY, expectation of "payment."
- AnimalMuppet 4y agoYou don't think academic articles get written in the expectation of payment? They get written because writing them is a big part of an academic's job, and they are paid for their job. That's not payment in the form of a check from the journal, but they're still getting paid to produce it. Fan fiction I will give you. It's not paid, but it's also often not excellent. Some is; most isn't. Look, I generate free content too. I'm doing it now. I think it's worth doing. It's not worthless. But it's worth less in terms of passing on knowledge than professionally-written books. Do you really want to learn, say, differential equations from Wikipedia? Or would you do better with a good textbook?