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Originally Posted by Giggleton
Your book commissar flaw depends on our society not being able to compensate authors without a paywall forcing them to do so. Meaning you think people won't pay for books that they can download for free. Nevermind all that gibberish about people not placing value on things that they don't spend money on, that's just 20th century psychobabble.
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Yes, because Marx's labor theory of value worked so much better.
It is possible that we could, in terms of entertainment and information, be entering a post scarcity world (i.e. where the supply is so great that demand can never be large enough to create scarcity and lack of demand doesn't cause a constraint in supply). That being said, we are not there yet. Nor do I see us entering that world through the model you are suggesting.
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What I assert is that authors shouldn't be able to sell books, readers will still be able to buy of course, and so authors will be paid. This is called a free market.
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Emphasis on
free, since most people will not pay for that which they can get for free.
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Bill