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Originally Posted by Steven Lyle Jordan
Gods and stars, not another recommendation to go back to the Patronage system! Patronage benefited less than a single percent of potential artists, and left all the rest without means for self-expression, forcing most of them to abandon artistic careers; in short, it was a very inefficient system...
Without it, most potential inventors/creators never got out of their farms or other menial jobs.
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The number of artists able to make a living during the patronage era had nothing to do with the regime of copyright. Before the industrial revolution, it required approximately 80 percent if the population just to produce sufficient food. The urbanization rate, or the percentage of people who lived in cities of 2,500 or more people, was less than 5 percent. Plain and simple, it was technology that enabled a large creative class.