Re:A brief history of why artists are no longer making a liv...
by tonyedgecombe on Friday March 22, 2019 @07:57AM
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You could apply this argument to almost literally anything that people do or have done for money.
Yes, there is a reason nobody is making money selling NPM modules and that is the marginal cost is zero and there is no constraint on supply, people like to do it for free.
Doctors and Lawyers have professional guilds that legislate to constrain supply. Hence the price is high.
Competence doesn't really come into it, even in the high art world it's more about who you know than what you know. No amount of wishful thinking will change this.
Yes, there is a reason nobody is making money selling NPM modules and that is the marginal cost is zero and there is no constraint on supply, people like to do it for free.
Doctors and Lawyers have professional guilds that legislate to constrain supply. Hence the price is high.
Competence doesn't really come into it, even in the high art world it's more about who you know than what you know. No amount of wishful thinking will change this.