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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
I guess my thinking is that the only way something like this is going to work is that it becomes so attractive to become a patron (financial incentives, opportunities, I don't know what) that prospective patrons are searching out artists, willing to bankroll them a comfortable salary to produce anything they damned well please.
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The patron model isn't something I'm arguing for; I just threw that out there as a possibility (because everyone, including me, has a tendency to be blinded by "the way things are" as the only way to do things.)
Actually, I don't think a patronage model would work for books (although I could be wrong... Someone should try it!)
I'm actually making very few value judgments here, I don't know why I can't get that across :-) People seem to think I'm in favor of a lot of things that I just see as realities. I might like sunny days, but arguing that we should have more of them is pointless. The rain is coming, and all we can do is try to stay afloat.