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Originally Posted by HarryT
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.
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I work in a profession that takes a lot of investment time wise to get to a position where I can make a comfortable liveable income. The compensation for that effort and sacrifice comes over a period of years after I qualify. If I drop dead now, having just qualified, my family does not get the consideration of an income representative of that effort and sacrifice.
My risks are not covered by the law. I do not see why their risk should be.