I see you have come to the conclusion that capitalism leads to oligarchy. Communism is already oligarchy. I remember reading in the 1990s, the news paper writers were being apologists for the Soviet's communism. They said "capitalists' and communists want the same thing". Oligarchs can wear both hats: government or business. Decentralize everything
As for books, there comes a time when the price is so high, people will simply photocopy it and otherwise not buy it. Where I live there is little enforcement people often want to borrow (paper) books from me to photocopy. E-books are so easy to copy also. This is why Harry Potter is only available as a paper book.
Steemit gives authors a chance to make money with votes. Steemfiles gives the user a chance to pay authors for the downloads.
It does if the potential competitors are always kept oppressed, which happens all the time, even without a government. See BTC vs BCH.
No communism is a fictional theretical goal of making everyone equal, but any practical implementations of it creates exactly the opposite, a totalitarian state with omnipotent powers.
Those were heavy propaganda pices, if you research into it ,most of those reporters were paid shills
Yes and there is 1 more thing to copyright. People should not have unrealistic goals as a content producer. Now everyone will be a Michael Jackson.
I mean literally everyone wants to be a world famous star nowadays, which is just totally irrational greed. And most artists become psychological wrecks anyway. Most stars become drug addict psychos eventually.
So really if you are a local singer or some book writer who is only known in a region, it's much better to stay there than to go for more, otherwise the negative consequences will pile up too.
So if they have to sell their books for 2-3$, no big deal, if they get just 5000 readers, they can alredy pay the bills, and they can write a book every 6 months.