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Old 09-26-2010, 02:12 PM   #14
weateallthepies
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Originally Posted by gastan View Post
This small portion of your post seems to be the gist of your thoughts, that writers should be paid over and over and over and over and ...... over for one piece of work. Who knew?

I was a cabinet/furniture maker/finish carpenter before I retired. I should go back and demand a payment for every time someone sits in a chair I made or uses a drawer in a cabinet I made and installed, huh? I could be retired in luxury instead of merely in a pedestrian, respectable fashion.

Someone hires you to do a job, you do it, you get paid for it, you move on to the next job.
It's a bad analogy though. You don't sell a single chair to many people, the economics are completely different.
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