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by Workaccount2 1036 days ago
It means that amazing poetry becomes nothing special. You cannot make a name for yourself as a poet because everyone can push a few buttons and get work as good or better than your own.
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Poets making a living and poetry producing meaning are two different problems. Every poet can be destitute (many great ones have been), and people can still get meaning from their work. Or others' work. Or the work of other things.
>many great ones have been

And my point is that there will be no more great ones, because the field of comparison will be flat.