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by rlpb 105 days ago
What if a person puts in the work, but the work was worthless or can be trivially reproduced without effort?

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweat_of_the_brow

1 comments

You mean like when I take a photo?
A photo is easy to take but hard to reproduce.
As is randomly splattering paint on a canvas, even with no artistic vision or skill.