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But I have other proposals for ways to support artists. And remember the current system mostly supports corporations, so I don't think it works very well. And it makes a few authors quite rich, and those get treated with great deference by the corporations, and the rest basically get ground into the dust. My proposals &mdash; I have two, and another that combines them &mdash; one proposal is support artists using taxes, it could either be a specific tax on Internet connectivity or general funds, it wouldn't be a tremendous amount of money by comparison with other government expenditures, and then you divide this among artists by measuring their popularity, but you don't divide it in linear proportion, 'cos if you did that a large portion of this money would go to making superstars richer and it's not needed, what I propose is take the cube root of the popularity.