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Boy.
Even after just skimming this thread, I'm about ready to close up shop. Here I am, sitting on an almost-finished new novel, and it seems everything I'm reading lately is painting creators as greedy, godless devils who don't deserve to profit from their work beyond some minuscule pittance decided upon by others, while consumers have every right to take what they can get.
I'd like to think that the entertainment value of the story I crafted is worth something... when everyone seems fixated on the fact that, since it's only a bunch of electrons, it is intrinsically worthless.
In short: Why am I bothering to write for anyone at all?
It sounds like I have no choice but to expect to get screwed by the public, said screwing being deeper and deeper the more successful I become. And in an atmosphere like this, why expect writers to write or publishers to publish for anyone at all? In a future of work for no pay, somehow I don't expect much work will get done for anyone but themselves.
Is this really the world consumers are looking forward to?
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