> I’m not sure it’s good for society that some professions can get paid over and over long after they did the work (say, in the case of a game developer), whereas others need to perform the job over and over to get paid (say, in the case of a hairdresser or a lawyer).
Not sure I agree with this point. All professions are different, some make their money long term by providing value and gaining experience, some make their money by just doing work and some make their money by providing a product over time.
A (good) hairdresser for example makes their money because of reputation, if they do great work for customers they can charge more, therefore their previous work does matter, just in a different way. An actual example of people that get no long term value from the work they do are retail workers: a shelf stacker doesn't get a "better" shelf stacking job stacking "better" things if they can stack shelves well.
If people support the idea that content creators don't "deserve" to make money long term then content creators will just go further down the Steam / EA route: don't provide a product, provide that product as a service. Instead of purchasing a copy of a game, you rent access to it on a service which can be revoked at any time and is 100% controlled by the issuing company. This is what Steam is...
Not sure I agree with this point. All professions are different, some make their money long term by providing value and gaining experience, some make their money by just doing work and some make their money by providing a product over time.
A (good) hairdresser for example makes their money because of reputation, if they do great work for customers they can charge more, therefore their previous work does matter, just in a different way. An actual example of people that get no long term value from the work they do are retail workers: a shelf stacker doesn't get a "better" shelf stacking job stacking "better" things if they can stack shelves well.
If people support the idea that content creators don't "deserve" to make money long term then content creators will just go further down the Steam / EA route: don't provide a product, provide that product as a service. Instead of purchasing a copy of a game, you rent access to it on a service which can be revoked at any time and is 100% controlled by the issuing company. This is what Steam is...