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Originally Posted by crich70
Yes, but there is a fine balance between the two isn't there? I mean granted a person shouldn't think of their work as being a source of steady income that will sustain them forever so that they don't have to work, but if it doesn't bring in enough income for them to be able to eat while they do the writing instead of another job then they will turn to other means of gaining income and stop writing (or at least produce less since they have to have funds to live on as well). And we'll all be the poorer for it.
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Or maybe not. Maybe less crap will be produced. And maybe some people need to work to get experience to produce masterworks.
It is very hard to say what will happen. That is also why I do not think that the argument that Shakespear and Dickens wrote for money is a good argument. Maybe they would have produced much better things if they did not have to write for money.