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At the small scale, what are the desirable properties of a non capitalist book system? Would all reward and compensation for writing books (physically published

At the small scale, what are the desirable properties of a non capitalist book system? Would all reward and compensation for writing books (physically published or ebook) be dictated by a central authority? Would individual authors be assigned the topics they would be compensated for? Would they be audited for unauthorized use of AI? Would popularity of the books play a role at all, and if so by what means would authors be protected from effort-stealing? If not, why would we believe the right books would be produced and approved?

clnq 3y ago
It does not have to be centrally controlled. You are talking more about planned economy than non-capitalist incentives. Perhaps you jumped to the conclusion that I am talking about the failed Soviet Union experiment when I say that capitalistic incentives harm literature and knowledge sharing? I am not referring to that, at all. Many people already write amazing works for non-capitalist incentives. Most research is done without them and they are often seen as a conflict of interest in producing good quality papers. A lot of textbooks are also written from need by teachers and professors rather than from capitalistic incentives. Many people just want to share their knowledge, this has been the case since before printed press. The main desirable property in a non-capitalistic economy of literature would be that literature would not be seen as means of growing capital. We have had such an approach to literature for a long time in history — a time with remarkably fewer garbage writings than today.
- sclarisse 3y ago
  Okay. That sounds reasonable, with the difficulty of being radically underfunded (especially while locked in competition with the other world.)
imtringued 3y ago
The mechanism is quite simple. Humans get paid enough to not need to write bad quality books in the name of "economic growth" to begin with. A lot of people want free time so they can do uncompensated work that they like doing.

clnq 3y ago

It does not have to be centrally controlled. You are talking more about planned economy than non-capitalist incentives. Perhaps you jumped to the conclusion that I am talking about the failed Soviet Union experiment when I say that capitalistic incentives harm literature and knowledge sharing? I am not referring to that, at all. Many people already write amazing works for non-capitalist incentives. Most research is done without them and they are often seen as a conflict of interest in producing good quality papers. A lot of textbooks are also written from need by teachers and professors rather than from capitalistic incentives. Many people just want to share their knowledge, this has been the case since before printed press. The main desirable property in a non-capitalistic economy of literature would be that literature would not be seen as means of growing capital. We have had such an approach to literature for a long time in history — a time with remarkably fewer garbage writings than today.

sclarisse 3y ago
Okay. That sounds reasonable, with the difficulty of being radically underfunded (especially while locked in competition with the other world.)

imtringued 3y ago

The mechanism is quite simple. Humans get paid enough to not need to write bad quality books in the name of "economic growth" to begin with. A lot of people want free time so they can do uncompensated work that they like doing.