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Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The best ones are thoughts that many people can relate to and they find something funny or interesting in regular stuff.

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Interesting how artists don't make enough money from their creations, so our solution is to make certain information illegal to share, rather than give them a universal basic income. (lemm.ee)
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[–] commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com -5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not when work takes a large amount of time to produce the original, and very little work to produce a copy

if you've never seen someone sell their own creative work without the trappings of a government enforced monopoly, you should look into how any author or artist got paid before the statute of anne.

[–] droans@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

By the rich?

[–] commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 year ago

patronage was common. you can't think that every artist got paid by someone who is rich though.