Honestly at this point, looking at what the world is like for content creators, I'd be willing to entertain that argument It's a bad idea on practical grounds, just like it's a bad idea for a store to insist on a strip and cavity search of all patrons exiting the building
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But if I *want* to make access to my content as restrictive as possible I have the right to In practical terms this is why you're seeing an uptick of exclusive live shows with really onerous "NO PHONES" policies
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Are we talking about moral rights or legal rights In terms of legal rights, the existence of lending libraries for physical books is pretty set in stone and it's a wild fantasy to think anyone will ever have the power to get them banned, ESPECIALLY print publishing
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Honestly speaking from a purely amoral perspective and looking at what's actually happening with warring interest groups, consumer demand is likely to prevail over workers trying to protect their bottom line as it always does - that's the trend of the past 20 years
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I mean yeah the overwhelming desire of consumers to get stuff cheaper and with less hassle is what drives capitalism's race to the bottom
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Even in a full communist utopia, if there's any fork of social reward for creating artwork at all (Whuffie or whatever) there has to be a way to assign it based on whether people actually consumed it and gained enjoyment from it rather than just that you did it
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But outside of full communist utopia this is just frivolous Even if everyone gets UBI, if capitalism still exists and income for other jobs still exists, then if artists live only on UBI and people with "real jobs" live on UBI + salary, expect a lot fewer artists
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And who's paying them
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