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This isn’t a good argument since extremely few creatives get obscenely rich and few creatives are even able to generate a decent income to do things like being
by chaostheory 2y ago
This isn’t a good argument since extremely few creatives get obscenely rich and few creatives are even able to generate a decent income to do things like being able to buy a home.
At least in tech, the pot is more evenly distributed and for more types of people. It even contributes to the broader economy as a whole with genuine innovation as opposed to just collecting rent on IP.
- ChrisMarshallNY 2y agoWell, as a [former] creative, myself, I don't think that I'd consider what I did, "collecting rent on IP." In fact, if you look at the behavior of many tech company legal teams, that seems more like what tech corporations do, than individual creatives. This is the stuff I did in the 1980s, when I was considering making a living at it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40917886 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40917886
- chaostheory 2y agoBecause you’re not the one doing it. It’s the music labels that are doing it. You’d also be lucky to get fair compensation for your work. Even superstars get cheated. The behavior of music labels is far worse and less valuable to society than the tech industry
- ChrisMarshallNY 2y ago> far worse and less valuable to society than the tech industry The jury's still out on that. The music industry can't hold a candle to some of the raw destruction that has been wrought by tech. It's just balanced by a lot of good (and making tech billionaires isn't really what I consider "good").
- chaostheory 2y agoAt least the tech industry contributes something, which is more than I can say about music labels.