Even if I completely accepted that a certain technological landscape mandates a certain business model, the original "Luddites" under Ned Ludd were a *workers' revolt* determined to *delay* the inevitable evaporation of their livelihood by any means necessary
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And it's actually kind of pernicious to just cast them as ignorant fools and villains of history and take the side of the consumers by taking the side of the capitalists
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I mean, advances are a standard industry practice in trad publishing, and protecting the idea of advances and protecting authors against clawbacks in their contracts is a huge part of what unions like the NWU or SFWA do
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If you think they should be going harder than that and demanding that every current NWU member get a stipend from the government for writing a minimum number of words per year ("single-payer publishing"), well, good luck convincing the leadership of that
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I dunno how to explain this if people still don't get it but SFWA, NWU, the Authors Guild, etc are *labor unions* That's literally what they are, the NWU is even an AFL-CIO affiliate The framing of them as capitalist industry associations ("idea landlords") is pernicious
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Not really It's the equivalent of calling anyone self-employed based on their "human capital" a "landlord"
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It's like saying a surgeon is a "medical expertise and fine motor skills" landlord, that they should only get paid the same hourly rate anyone else does for any other form of labor, and anything more than that is "rent"
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And, of course, Big Tech with their focus on AI expert learning systems and automation is working hard on "fixing" that "problem" for every skilled profession
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Okay but someday when they train a RoboSurgeon to do a surgeon's job by tracking their movements so they can replicate it indefinitely thereafter, everyone with expertise is going to be in the position of "selling IP"
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