[jfengel]

It should work with a universal basic income. Everyone has enough to eat and a place to live. Then you price your efforts based on not needing a subsistence. It would make it easier to dismiss the notion of intellectual property, since you no longer need to artificially limit copying so that creators could survive.

They'll probably want some kind of job to afford art supplies, but it's an option rather than a mandate.

This is oversimplified, of course, but it doesn't seem fundamentally impossible.

[patentatt]

The limited monopoly isn't just for survival though, it's supposed to be an incentive.

[jfengel]

Lots of creators like to create for fun. The type of work is different but it's not necessarily any less productive overall.