Comment on Interesting how artists don't make enough money from their creations, so our solution is to make certain information illegal to share, rather than give them a universal basic income.

• commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Not when work takes a large amount of time to produce the original, and very little work to produce a copy

  if you’ve never seen someone sell their own creative work without the trappings of a government enforced monopoly, you should look into how any author or artist got paid before the statute of anne.

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  • droans@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    By the rich?

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    • commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      patronage was common. you can’t think that every artist got paid by someone who is rich though.

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• commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  wrong.

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