Re:A brief history of why artists are no longer making a liv...
by coldtea on Friday March 22, 2019 @05:23PM
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>I think people making money making music was an aberration in history, not "the way it should be".
Whether that is "the way it should be" or not, depends on what we want it to be as a society.
Not to whether some technology helps it or not. Untraceable murder could be very easy tomorrow with some new technology, but we'd still not want it to happen.
So the part that "artificial scarcity" helped musicians make money off of their art, is a historical and technological accident.
But whether artists should be able to make money off of their art (scarcity be damned) is an ethical and "what kind of society we want" question.
We shouldn't abandon our "oughts" at the first sign of some technology working against them.
Whether that is "the way it should be" or not, depends on what we want it to be as a society.
Not to whether some technology helps it or not. Untraceable murder could be very easy tomorrow with some new technology, but we'd still not want it to happen.
So the part that "artificial scarcity" helped musicians make money off of their art, is a historical and technological accident.
But whether artists should be able to make money off of their art (scarcity be damned) is an ethical and "what kind of society we want" question.
We shouldn't abandon our "oughts" at the first sign of some technology working against them.