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Originally Posted by RWood
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Originally Posted by alex_d
Compensating authors directly according to popularity is a form of communism.
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Let me see if I understand you correctly. More popular authors are the ones that sell the most and therefore it is Communistic to pay them more? |
I think perhaps he's not refering to the system of government, but rather to the practice of a group of people having everything in common in a commune -- not "
Communism" but "
communism" -- that assumes that the capitalization difference was deliberate.
That being said, I still don't think I follow you, alex_d.
I'm not particularly up on how communes work, other than thinking it requires an unusual group of people for any sizable number of them to be able to set their individual self-interests aside enough to make it work.
Could you elaborate a bit on what you mean?
