creators surviving in times of plenty

Okay... the lesson is don't write something while tired and post it without checking it properly in the cold, hard light of day. While not everything I wrote in that post was crap, so much was erratic that I'm too embarrassed to let it stand.

I'll rewrite it more rationally and repost it some time in the future.

For the record, I think the main points still stand. Donation holds a lot of promise in a world where filesharing is easy and costs almost nothing. We artists need to find a way to harness the power of the internet.