Except that it's not about profits, it's about culture and quality of life. And pursuit of profit at the expense of everything else reliably destroys both.
It's also about closing one of the few paths that the poor can use to stop being poor.
It's also about closing one of the few paths that the poor can use to stop being poor.
Maybe it would drive income equality and better remuneration for those roles. Maybe we'd simply lose a lot of productivity. Who knows?
UBI would provide peanuts for everyone and devalue the content even more. Everybody and the fleas on the backs of their dogs will be streaming and influencing.
So who decides which artists are about "culture and quality of life" and should be paid to do whatever they like doing? You? Some committee? The population?
Because right now it's the population. You might not agree with the choices they make, but that's a different issue.