There's too much to discuss in these comments, but here's a couple of bullet point responses:
- That's kind of the natural state of things for most artistic endeavors. Many artists have a day job that pays the bills.
- Fortunately, we've got some practical alternative funding models now that anybody who wants to quit their day job can use. Patreon and Kickstarter both provide a superior funding model for a post-digital-scarcity world. Either money up front before the art is created, or an ongoing subscription for art creation.
- Humans are short-sighted, and we don't, as a species, generally like change. We're not really prepared to make changes like implementing UBI because of weird emotional investments in the status quo. However, we will eventually adapt, even if it requires some people kicking and screaming until they're dragged into the present and realize how nice it is.
- Also, post-digital-scarcity doesn't mean you can't exchange money for bits. I spend a lot of money at Bandcamp in return for DRM-free bits that I could totally have torrented, but don't because Bandcamp is easy to use and I can support the artist
- That's kind of the natural state of things for most artistic endeavors. Many artists have a day job that pays the bills.
- Fortunately, we've got some practical alternative funding models now that anybody who wants to quit their day job can use. Patreon and Kickstarter both provide a superior funding model for a post-digital-scarcity world. Either money up front before the art is created, or an ongoing subscription for art creation.
- Humans are short-sighted, and we don't, as a species, generally like change. We're not really prepared to make changes like implementing UBI because of weird emotional investments in the status quo. However, we will eventually adapt, even if it requires some people kicking and screaming until they're dragged into the present and realize how nice it is.
- Also, post-digital-scarcity doesn't mean you can't exchange money for bits. I spend a lot of money at Bandcamp in return for DRM-free bits that I could totally have torrented, but don't because Bandcamp is easy to use and I can support the artist