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And those who are getting paid those great tech salaries, should be willing to send 100% of their paychecks to artists while they code for free.

Because . . . they're not creating value with their code. It took them years to learn how to code well. All that effort should be contributed to the world for free.


Good point! The software engineers whose work was used to train Copilot, etc. should also be getting paid.


> It took them years to learn how to code well. All that effort should be contributed to the world for free.

I mean, there is a plethora of open source work that is actually contributed to the world for free, right?


Bear Family is amazing!

I have a bunch of their box sets. Pure archival gold - including Jerry Lee Lewis making really crude jokes in between takes of a song.

We need a Bear Family equivalent for hip-hop!


How does forced labor in third-world countries to build your products fit into this book/philosophy?


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