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Originally Posted by HarryT
It's not "separate from all other forms of human endeavour". If you buy shares in a company, you can leave those shares to your family, who will be able to "harvest money" from them after your death. An author's legacy to his family is the income from his books.
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Why? If I die, my family won't enjoy my pension...
And I won't buy a comparison between a company and a book. Any company is a tool to generate produce to generate money. A book is not the tool, it's the produce.