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by mulmen 3119 days ago
You are way down the rabbit hole of the JK Rowling example here and have completely missed the overall point. My argument is that the difference between the books you want to read and the rest is smaller than the economic outcomes would lead us to believe.

To make this even more clear, economic gain is disproportionately allocated to a few individuals at the expense of all other participants. It stops being a meritocracy and becomes a lottery for the producers funded by the capitalists at the expense of all other participants.