Fine, dissolve the business as an analogy instead. Just how many family-owned or individual-founded megacorps do you think there are? And just how many small family-owned plumbing, metalworking, accounting, auto repair, etc., etc. businesses there are? Should we shut all of those down and say "tough luck, widows and orphans, you don't get any financial security based on your parent's long and hard work" because we're afraid 1 out of 100,000 of you is a megacorp?
So you're a financially well-off, non-ignorant thief, stealing money from others for products that you could actually afford to pay for. Quite the accomplishment for 30. What's your long-term life plan -- embezzlement and tax fraud?
Horseshit. So an auto mechanic or a plumber who starts a business, works hard his whole life, and then dies can pass that business on to his widow and his children, who can then continue it or sell it, but an author's work shouldn't continue to benefit his family for a reasonable time also? Why shouldn't a writer's life work be treated as an economic asset in the same way any other person's assets are? I'd like to get free plumbing and auto repair too, but it doesn't entitle me to charge into one of those family businesses and inform them that the work should be free since the family member that started the business is now dead.
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Fine, dissolve the business as an analogy instead. Just how many family-owned or individual-founded megacorps do you think there are? And just how many small family-owned plumbing, metalworking, accounting, auto repair, etc., etc. businesses there are? Should we shut all of those down and say "tough luck, widows and orphans, you don't get any financial security based on your parent's long and hard work" because we're afraid 1 out of 100,000 of you is a megacorp?
So you're a financially well-off, non-ignorant thief, stealing money from others for products that you could actually afford to pay for. Quite the accomplishment for 30. What's your long-term life plan -- embezzlement and tax fraud?
Horseshit. So an auto mechanic or a plumber who starts a business, works hard his whole life, and then dies can pass that business on to his widow and his children, who can then continue it or sell it, but an author's work shouldn't continue to benefit his family for a reasonable time also? Why shouldn't a writer's life work be treated as an economic asset in the same way any other person's assets are? I'd like to get free plumbing and auto repair too, but it doesn't entitle me to charge into one of those family businesses and inform them that the work should be free since the family member that started the business is now dead.