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Originally Posted by howyoudoin
That's my point exactly. Doctors and Lawyers don't get paid merely for effort sustained before licensing, they have to keep reproducing their knowledge and expertise and get paid for each such reproduction for each client or patient. The authors don't have to keep reproducing their efforts in order to continue to get paid. Its human nature to value the former more than the latter.
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So a Doctor is entitled to reimbursement for each patient seen but an author isn't entitled to be reimbursed for each person who reads his/her work...
Eminently fair...
