> Why does that level of effort entitle someone to a "comfortable living"? Because people enjoyed his books and were willing to pay for them? (But all the prof

> Why does that level of effort entitle someone to a "comfortable living"? Because people enjoyed his books and were willing to pay for them? (But all the profits when to the printers in Belgium etc) > That's on the order of a few words a day. That irrelevant. It’s about the value/utility you provide and not the amount of labor. Also you(or me) really have no clue how many words he wrote per day even if that were relevant. Maybe he wrote a dozen drafts for each book which he discarded, how would that change anything? I mean… if you wrote down 500 words per day would you believe that you deserve to be paid more for that than Cervantes for e.g. 0.01 of his words? > Shakespeare Ran a theater (together with his partners) i.e. he was both the writer and the publisher. His final theater troupe was sponsored directly by the King (previous one by the Lord Chamberlain) and had a royal patent and operated in a heavily regulated market. So surely not a very good example? Or is patronage and a system heavily regulated by the government preferable to legal copyright? Because that the only realistic alternative besides having no content. > entitle What entitles you to the content of your bank account or retirement savings? Maybe even your house? What kind of a question was that even? (I don’t really get it)