People are also happy when they receive life changing amounts of money for their creative work. He made "low seven figures." I think he's feeling fine.
I agree with this. I'd love to live in a world where our basic living needs (housing, food, clothing, healthcare, etc.) are met, and so every person feels safe and comfortable exploring play and creativity to the extent they desire.
Is this aspirational and unrealistic? Absolutely! I'm not claiming this is something we can do today, but I think it's good to think about where we might like to go.
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Where everyone can make such delightful inventions and not feel compelled by large actors to sell them.
People like creating, inventing, playing, when they are secure and happy. Most people don’t live in that state though.
Whenever I make a small project I live in fear that the NYT will threaten to give me a million dollars for it.
People are also happy when they receive life changing amounts of money for their creative work. He made "low seven figures." I think he's feeling fine.
He’d feel more fine if he felt he couldn’t be compelled to sell :)
What compulsion? The desire to be made for life?
Yep, that you didn’t need to live in a state of hoping you’d be “made for life”
Ah, well if we're talking about living in a post scarcity world where those incentives simply don't exist, I'm with you!
Not sure how we get there though.
He made the game just for his partner. So there's no block on people making and sharing things for fun. It's just what he did.
The fact it became really popular and he could then be financially rewarded for something he did anyway is just the icing on the cake.
I agree with this. I'd love to live in a world where our basic living needs (housing, food, clothing, healthcare, etc.) are met, and so every person feels safe and comfortable exploring play and creativity to the extent they desire.
Is this aspirational and unrealistic? Absolutely! I'm not claiming this is something we can do today, but I think it's good to think about where we might like to go.
I already live in this world. I do some work for other people for a few hours a day, and in exchange I have housing, food, clothing, healthcare, etc.
Oh, were these things supposed to materialize for me for free with no effort on my part? Well, I suppose there's always prison, but I'd rather not.