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I've always hated the concept of copyright in the sense that nobody should be making money off work they did - for example - 30 years ago. Nobody else has that

• jfengel 2y ago
  Lots of people have that luxury. They get some money, put it in the bank, and get paid for it. Even better, they put it in the stock market, and make even more money, solely for the privilege of having money. They don't even need to put in any effort in the trading; they can just pay somebody to do it, for a small fee. Retirees do it. Some people are born into it. A lot more people could, if they chose to: billionaires work because they like the work, not because they need to "justify their existence". Personally, I'd be all for paying writers a salary to write, and then have their works put into the public domain. Pay 'em enough that they can eventually afford to retire. But there are a few bugs to work out in figuring out where the money should come from and where it should go to, if we're giving the books away for free.