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metrognomeyesterday at 11:52 PM1 replyview on HN

The rhetoric of this comment seems to imply that this is a bad thing, but is it really? If it becomes more difficult to make money through creative endeavors, then that leaves us with fewer reasons to be creative other than for the sake of self-expression... which is what we want, right?


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scared_togethertoday at 12:55 AM

If self-expression doesn’t put food on the table, it will become monopolized by those who were already well-fed doing something else.