Z:gnu-www-ja-stallman-kth--ea58a7-There's a funny thing that hap/en

There's a funny thing that happens whenever someone comes up with a way of making lots of money by hoarding something. Until that time you've probably had lots and lots of people who were really enthusiastic and eager to work in that field, the only sort of question is how can they get any sort of livelihood at all. If we think of mathematicians for example, there are a lot more people who want to be pure mathematicians than there is funding for anybody to be pure mathematicians. And even when you do get funding, you don't get very much, they don't live well. And for musicians it's even worse. I saw a statistics for how much the average musician, the average person devoting most of his time trying to be a musician, in Massachusetts made; it was something like half the median income or less. It is barely enough to live on, it's difficult. But there are lots of them trying to do that. And then, somehow when it gets generally possible to get very well paid to do something, all those people disappear, and people start saying &ldquo;nobody will do it unless they get paid that well&rdquo;.