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Originally Posted by howyoudoin
The heirs have the money the author made in his/her lifetime, just as my heirs will have the money I make in my lifetime. My heirs will not benefit from my skills and effort after my death, so why should the author's heirs?
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Because writing is a fundamentally different activity to a "normal" job. If you're in pretty much any other job, you get paid at the time you do the work. When you write a book, you don't get paid while you're doing it - all the income comes in, spread over a period of years, after it's finished.