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Originally Posted by elcreative
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...  |
That isn't my point at all.
A doctor still has to put in effort for each patient he sees.
The author doesn't.
This isn't meant as a slight on the authors. It's just the nature of their work.
Both deserve the fruit of their efforts. But based on the difference that only one of them has to put in efforts again and again for each patient, people will generally tend to value the former more than the latter, which generally gets reflected in the monetary compensation involved.
Both get reimbursed, one gets reimbursed more than the other for good reason. Its the same principle as people paying more for a live music performance than for a mass produced reproduction (mp3, cd etc) of the same performance.