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To be clear here, you're saying that you want all writers, researchers, artists, architects, musicians, composers, filmmakers, actors, podcasters, to just stop doing things? Would it make you happy if I just threw out my painting supplies and my clarinet?

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Jumping in on your back and forth...

I believe there is a kind of artists dilemma where, one way to put it, we differentiate "commercial art" from "fine art". We put a higher value on the starving artist whose passion for creativity is so consuming, and vision so singular that they will follow their muse irregardless of any financial success.

I exaggerate to make clear the point.

Put another way, if there were no more blockbuster films, indie films would nonetheless still get made. Some people (maybe myself?) would be okay with that.

If you only paint or play the clarinet to get a paycheck from Disney, yes.

So now we're going back to the central point. Before it sounded like you wanted me to "stop producing". Now from this reply, it sounds like you don't actually care if I stop producing, you're just objecting to me getting paid and demanding payment.

I'd be objecting anyone that gets paid to produce cultural pollution.

Are you getting paid to produce cultural pollution?

Please discontinue this style of rhetoric, it's not what this site is for.

The "people will starve without copyright" rhetoric is also quite off-putting.

That's not a rhetoric and it's also not even close to what I said or what I actually think. Please don't make things up, it's doing a disservice to yourself.

What you are implying is that people only create something if they can "demand payment" for it, no?

Nearly all of classical music was sponsored by and produced for wealthy patrons. Is that cultural pollution too?

The body of work that reached the present day is the refined version of that. All the duds were forgotten.

I'm sure back in the day, Salzburg people were also rolling their eye about yet another Requiem.

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