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Originally Posted by Giggleton
It would be nice if people did what they liked to do and offered everything they produced to anyone who wanted it.
Authors definitely need to eat, just like farmers. But it seems that the copyright system is built as a protection against those who would take advantage of anothers work. In other words, it is curing the symptom, not the disease. The disease being the meme consisting of the idea that it is ok to reward yourself financially from anothers work.
By taking away the possibility of selling, the meme would eventually die.
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What would die would be books. The problem that copyright was designed to solve was that publishers were printing books without paying the author. Without the ability to make a living from writing, people have little incentive to write, and have little time to do so in any case.
You say that authors and farmers have to eat, but you would deprive them of that. The ability of authors to charge for their work is not a disease.
If you want to create a world where robots do everything for us, go ahead and create the robots and then we'll talk. I suspect that someone else will be expected to create the robots, and then give them away for nothing.