• assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

      So what exactly is the issue again with artists and authors and singers making billions when hundreds of millions of fans buy their work?

      • HACKthePRISONS@kolektiva.social
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        9 months ago

        nothing is wrong with selling your work. it’s immoral to (use a government-enforced artificial monopoly to) stop others from sharing culture, though.

        it’s impossible to know how much money she made just because of her (artificial, government-enforced) monopoly position in the market. but without that monopoly, i don’t believe she’d have ever come close to being a billionaire.