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Originally Posted by Krystian Galaj
True; but if you only destroy potential financial gains, works will still be created.
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Exactly. Monetary gain is only one, and not the most significant reason for creation, or the motivation to create.
If you're a follower of WI Thomas the sociologist (I came to him through the writing teacher Dwight W. Swain) then you'll be aware of the Four Wishes theory. These are the four motivations that stand out the most in any human being.
1. Adventure (the experience of the new, a challenge. In writing this might be seen as experimenting with form and breaking out beyond genres.)
2. Security (to maintain a status quo, to fend off change. In writing this might be the writing-for-money and only money attitude.)
3. Recognition (this is the drive to fame, to be praised, in writing circles it might be the hunger for a good review or the winning of a prize)
4. Response (love. To be honestly appreciated, to reach others on an intimate level. In writing this would, I assume, be the one-on-one we sometimes get from reader to audience, that moment when writing changes us and those who read what we write).
Of course there can be a mix of motivations, but money and the security it might bring is only one motivation to write. If you take it out of the equation, that leaves at least three more motivators for creativity, for any action within our society.