You ever notice the people always lecturing society on the benefits of communism are highly paid in their own fields? Yup. Us too.
Meet Professor Yann LeCun of NYU who also happens to be the Chief AI Scientist at Meta.
So, communism.
Always.
Not so fast!
A lot of misunderstanding in the comments. I'm certainly not suggesting there should be a rule forcing authors to release their books for free or anything. I'm just making the point that many authors who are more motivated by intellectual impact than by a thousand bucks of income should probably just make their book available for free download. This does not preclude publishing a paper version. A number of folks in the academic world do this.
Oh.
You see the problem here is just greedy authors.
You should be motivated by making the world a better place with your free labor!!
But it's BETTER for you!
Oh, Dear Professor doesn't mean ALL authors, just YOU.
Writing a book is a form of entrepreneurship available to (nearly) everyone:
• single moms (JK Rawlings)
• teachers (Stephen King) and so on.
Out of all the forms of economic activity such as for instance:
• corporations earning undue profits through externalities that don’t get priced
• wealthy individuals living from dividends on their capital is writing books really the activity we should remove financial incentives for? Does this move us towards a more fair society? 80% of companies fail in 5 years therefore it shouldn’t be legal to generate profits.
The median returns on a startup is 0 therefore we should make everything a startup creates available to society at cost + 0. Using a median to say something about an economic activity, not looking at who are some of the beneficiaries of said activity, seems like a not entirely thought out argument to me.
Wealthy intellectuals always imagine other people would find personal fulfillment in working for the 'betterment' of society.
Progressivism never changes.
You should work for free to better society, but they should get paid the big bucks to make sure you know how to do it correctly.
No thank you.
$1,000 is better than nothing!
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