> Re-read what I wrote. I said nothing of the sort that people should
> not be paid for labor. However, people should be paid for the services
> they perform or the goods that they sell. People should not receive
> payments each time someone comes in contact with something that is an
> approximation of what said laboror produced at some point in the past.
> No one works in a vacuum. Anything that has ever been produced has
> come to fruition only because the producer has been exposed to the
> ideas and knowledge that mankind as a whole has accumulated over
> centuries. "Standing on the shoulders of giants" and all of that jazz...
>
> Jonathon
Well, you could extend this idea well beyond the music recording
industry. If you got a consulting gig, writing software for company X,
you could refuse payment. Your software development knowlege came from
somewhere else, be it books, or college, or the internet. If it
weren't for all of those influences, you never would have had the skills
to complete the project. So if you were really honest you would say,
"hey no thanks, I'm only standing on the shoulders of giants."
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