Gus - so the issue of how a creator gets paid for her work is trivial? It is Marxist to notice that writing a book or painting a picture is work? It is Marxist to note that if people are not paid for that work they won't do much of it? It is Marxist to note that if they are paid for it someone has to do the paying and thus must forgo other things they could have paid for and thus must be offered a way to determine that it is worth paying for?
Please make a proposal whole human being to whole human beings. But please remember that it takes whole human beings time to create art, and they need you know to eat and pay rent and stuff. Please remember that composition is not the final step in creating art and that other whole human beings taking additional steps need to eat. Finally remember that art is also about connecting with other human beings; and that if the artist is to have time to create that art, someone else must do the job of connecting that art to an audience, and that this someone also has to eat.
Please make a concrete proposal - one that does not include "then a miracle occurs" as one of the steps. To make it easy make it for one type of creative work - novels, short stories, music .. whatever. Explain how we can have a better system for getting those produce - better for the artist and better for the audience. And this is not snark. I'm quite convinced we can - something that does not involve WindSparrow's fear. But I'm curious to see what you have in mind. Or if all you have is intution I'll be disappointed, but understanding. It is just that from the certainty with which you spoke I was convinced you had a concrete plant; I've been a little impatient cause I thought you had this great idea and were teasing us rather than reveal it. If you were just sharing an intuition then the amount of detail I've put into these posts was rather overkill.