

it’d be more than thousands of people. but the thing is, when productivity is increased and more wealth is generated and people aren’t needed to do certain jobs anymore we have more free time or time to focus on stuff that we like or stuff that’s more productive like other work, that’s a good thing. the problem is when that excess wealth is generated it only going in the hands of the few. i would say it would be a good idea to tax the robots that start replacing jobs so that the wealth is spread amongst the people that lost their jobs and not just into the hands of the wealthy few. andrew yang talked about this a lot back in 2020 and a lot of what he predicted came true. he proposed a universal basic income to help redistribute wealth.




if they weren’t extremely rich would you still be okay with it? what if someone finds an obscure person’s world built universe from 7 years ago that got no traction, decided to make their own fanfiction within that universe and it got extremely popular? in that case the one who did all the world building gets nothing but the person who used the original world builder’s creation got everything. i only used examples like harry potter, game of thrones, and dune because they are the most popular world built universes i know about, but stealing another person’s world can come from worlds built from unknown people too.
you don’t think that if people can just make fanfiction off other people’s universes that they would opt to do that more often than doing their own world building and making their own universe? world building is hard and requires talent and a lot of work, if that is already done for you of course less people are going to make original works and more people are going to piggyback off other peoples universes.
fan fiction is fine. just dont try to sell it when all the world building and characters came from someone else’s ideas. if they have talent i encourage them to go make their own original work. i don’t want to kill fanfiction, i just don’t want to pay people who are profiting off someone else’s ideas but not compensating them for it. make as much fanfiction as you want as long as you don’t try to profit off it until you make your own original ideas.
basically just harkens back to what i said back up there. what about an author that does great world building, their world never becomes popular or makes money, and then someone else 7 years later sees their world building and makes their own story within that world and makes all the money and fame from it while the original author gets nothing?
i agree but i think copyright protects people from both megacorps and regular people who also can just scoop up someone else’s idea without payment too. also i don’t know if a 7 year copyright would even be long enough to stop megacorps even in your proposed scenario for protection.