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Originally Posted by HansTWN
We are not just talking about authors, we are talking about all the people whose work is in any way connected. This includes, among others, secretaries, security, janitors, accountants, computer technicians, etc.
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I'm still trying to figure out why there are those who think doing what you love for a living is such a horrible idea...
Just so I haven't lost touch with the original concept, I'm not saying "everyone involved with the arts should have the world handed to them on a platter." I'm still against the idea of DRM, and publishers (and, apparently, a few authors) need to get with the 21st-Century reality of new formats, otherwise piracy will continue.
NOW...
I don't know whether there's a cultural disconnect going on here or what but in freely-thinking, free-market societies, you have the right to
make a living doing what you enjoy.
Not
get rich (though if you can, more power to you I suppose).
Not
have everything handed to them by government/society.
Just. Making. A living.
A mortgage. Groceries. A practical form of transportation which enables you to visit family/run errands/hit the pub on whatever your chosen holiday may be.
By the time I'm done paying for school I'll be in debt to the tune of about US$80,000, but I will have a Masters degree and be employed in some facet of IT, likely systems analysis,
because I enjoy it and I'm good at it. Anyone who tells me I don't have the right to pursue this for a living is off the rails.
I'm sorry for those who equate the arts and letters with "doing nothing"; it must suck living in a box. I'm sorry if it's not that way in "some countries", I'm sorry that people have lived their entire lives thinking you need some sort of permission to express yourself, much less put dinner on the table for doing so...
Wait a minute...no, I'm not.