Comment Re:No, but the Age of Information will. (Score 1) 90
You err in assuming that VortexCortex needs to know how you would get paid for your writing in order for his argument to be valid.
If copyright law were repealed, some people would still want to read books, and some people would still want to write books. Money would still exist. Society would find some way to move money from the consumers to the suppliers. It wouldn't be patronage, or crowdfunding, or charity, or government arts grants: it would be all of these, and other funding schemes I can't think of. We'd try everything we could, and we'd keep what worked.
Maybe there'd be more writing than there was before, maybe there'd be less.
Maybe you'd be one of the writers who got paid enough to do it as a job, maybe you wouldn't.
Or do you propose that I just write for free and get a job at McDonald's to keep a roof over my head?
I see you've chosen McDonalds as the prototypical mindless dead-end job. Why couldn't you get a job as a technical writer for a hardware company? A chartered surveyor? A lab technician? Having a (comparatively) well-paid job with a future doesn't bar you from engaging in art.
And, if writing wasn't something you would do in your spare time for free even though you knew you weren't going to make money from it, you're probably not the kind of writer I'd want to support financially.
