The thing that depresses me about the last few days of Copyright Discourse is how many people have cheerfully told me, in so many words, that yes, they really do want me to starve.
https://twitter.com/TalkScaredPod/status/1367552932846186499
I have also been informed that “writing is only for rich people and a few rare talents” that I shouldn’t get royalties because “Society doesn’t owe me a living,” a couple variants on how we are greedy and selfish and capitalists (but we actually do own the means of production?)—
—that lots of people would be thrilled to write books and can’t so why should I get to, and that elderly comic creators screwed out of royalties by gigantic entertainment megacorps are at fault for not having put enough in Social Security and should just get jobs.
I have the hide of a rhino and this is starting to get even me down a bit. Like, apparently a non-zero people are genuinely angry at writers for having the gall to write. I don’t even know what to do with that.
Ooh! I just got “Copyright was never meant to reward authors or any such silliness.”
I have just been called a neoliberal rivaling Clinton! Go me.
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