I mean that’s a wonderful “what if” situation. Universal basic income and an expanded commons.
But I’m going to pull you up on the notion of cognitive labour.
Most artists and writers are not just coming up with ideas but actually executing them.
Creating pictures, even digitally, usually requires the artist to place their body in a location for a duration and perform (often repetitive) tasks.
This is manual labour too. They chose to exchange their physical existence for the creation of this work.
The same is true of most writers too. Not just the typing up of their ideas, but frequently the physical process of acquiring the material to express those ideas. Travelling for interviews. Talking to people.
So yeah, don’t let them get away with suggesting that theft was purely “cognitive labour” because that finishes the crime.
I mean that’s a wonderful “what if” situation. Universal basic income and an expanded commons.
But I’m going to pull you up on the notion of cognitive labour.
Most artists and writers are not just coming up with ideas but actually executing them.
Creating pictures, even digitally, usually requires the artist to place their body in a location for a duration and perform (often repetitive) tasks.
This is manual labour too. They chose to exchange their physical existence for the creation of this work.
The same is true of most writers too. Not just the typing up of their ideas, but frequently the physical process of acquiring the material to express those ideas. Travelling for interviews. Talking to people.
So yeah, don’t let them get away with suggesting that theft was purely “cognitive labour” because that finishes the crime.