Well, no, it pays a few authors tremendous riches and pays a lot more authors enough to at least live on You can say the same thing about self-publishing, too, but there the numbers are way more skewed
The new models for how to compensate labor that don't depend on "keeping information under lock and key" seem far, far more prone to rewarding just a tiny elite of superstars and just leaving everyone else with literally nothing
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It's not the exact same thing, the Gini coefficient in trad publishing is much lower It's gotten worse over time, yes, as the Internet has taken its toll, but the vast majority of middle-class creative incomes still come through trad publishing
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Like there is/was way way more of a "middle class" in traditional publishing contracts - "I'm not rich and you haven't heard of me but I pull down $40k a year" In the world of like Kickstarters and Patreons and shit the $40k people ARE the elite
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You're either really really famous, for which you make barely an okay living, or you get nothing
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Don't agree there, I'm of the anarcho-syndicalist persuasion and I do think there's serious and productive discussion to be had about art in a post-capitalism society. I also happen to think that pillorying this one dork ain't the way.
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