Once an author creates a work, getting paid repeatedly, indefinitely, for that work does not incent him to continue to author.
ME: place my job(autoelec) instead of author..
ive created several circuits(some now used in many ignition killers).damn does that mean i cant send a bill every year to everyone who i fitted it to their cars??
But how many authors and artists can continue to make a living after publishing only one work, even though they get paid "indefinitely?"
ME:DOH apparently i should have been sending out those bills!!
If he can just take his one book (or song or invention or whatever) to the bank for the rest of his and his children's children's children's lives, what motive would he have to continue to produce?
ME: what the
so why the hell have i been elbow deep in some citron(sp?) engine guts trying to figure out how to remove the alternator??
hmm autoelecs of the world unite-no car shall start until we get paid repeatedly, indefinitely, for the changing of a bulb!!!
(TIC) but then hmmmm.......
i didnt anyway as they are overpriced and below quality- but this adds a further reason not to
as an aussie-its `funny' to watch the selfdestruction of a society-funny as in a car wreck type sense funny
for a country that bleats home of the free and the brave on every occasion it can.....
there is precious little of either to be seen of either
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Once an author creates a work, getting paid repeatedly, indefinitely, for that work does not incent him to continue to author. ME: place my job(autoelec) instead of author.. ive created several circuits(some now used in many ignition killers).damn does that mean i cant send a bill every year to everyone who i fitted it to their cars?? But how many authors and artists can continue to make a living after publishing only one work, even though they get paid "indefinitely?" ME:DOH apparently i should have been sending out those bills!! If he can just take his one book (or song or invention or whatever) to the bank for the rest of his and his children's children's children's lives, what motive would he have to continue to produce? ME: what the so why the hell have i been elbow deep in some citron(sp?) engine guts trying to figure out how to remove the alternator?? hmm autoelecs of the world unite-no car shall start until we get paid repeatedly, indefinitely, for the changing of a bulb!!! (TIC) but then hmmmm.......
i didnt anyway as they are overpriced and below quality- but this adds a further reason not to as an aussie-its `funny' to watch the selfdestruction of a society-funny as in a car wreck type sense funny for a country that bleats home of the free and the brave on every occasion it can..... there is precious little of either to be seen of either