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Does that mean novel writing would only be for those who are already independently wealthy? How would that actually work?
by robertlagrant 3y ago
Does that mean novel writing would only be for those who are already independently wealthy? How would that actually work?
- thot_experiment 3y agoI'm not claiming to have worked out how to make this all function. I'm just pointing out that the cost of duplicating a novel approaches zero and the assumption that the way we're assigning value is the only one that works leads to a world where we must deny people things they could have in order to preserve their value. This does not seem morally correct to me. I do not need to have a solution in order to identify a problem. Perhaps we could make strides toward a future where you don't need to be independently wealthy to write a novel by having some sort of a UBI scheme.
- robertlagrant 3y ago> I do not need to have a solution in order to identify a problem I'm the only one who's identified a problem. You haven't. Production costs aren't the only type of cost.
- thot_experiment 3y agoWhat? Let me spell it out for you. Artificial scarcity is bad. I am not comfortable denying people things that cost nothing to reproduce. This is a problem.
- carlosjobim 3y agoThat's the basic argument that hackers make. Creativity shouldn't be a way to make a living, but a cool hobby for people who are already employed with comfortable salaries and their real estate paid off. Trying to sell your creativity is grifting. In fact, the novel writer should pay the hacker if the hacker pleases to read the novel, because the novel writer is using the hacker's valuable attention. Or at least I've heard around here that attention is very valuable.