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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. (lemm.ee)

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[-] [email protected] -5 points 10 months 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.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

By the rich?

[-] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago

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

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