If I make art, I would like to get compensated by it. However, under market capitalism, my art has to sell well to make money, which means that I cannot make art out of pure volition, but have to adhere to what consumers like, which may not be in line with what I like. Plus, market capitalism/SnD opens up a whole other can of worms about copyright, piracy, and morality. With an LToV-based system for compensating for art, I will get paid based on how much I worked, rather than if consumers like it or not. In other words, I can allow people to copy and redistribute/remix it without worrying about a loss of customers. To quote George Lucas “[In the USA], you have to adhere to a very narrow line of commercialism”.
My ideal for art and compensation would involve de-rockstaring all art and emphasizing the value of local art. I would want everyone to be an artist and I would give people more hours in the week to do art than to do work.
Edit: If you can imagine how right now we work 9-5 monday to friday, I would organize society with soft and structural incentives so that one would have organized community art projects happening 1/3rd of the day, centrazlied labour 1/3rd, free time 1/3rd with the organized community art projects being large scale local/state projects that workshop all kinds of art, sport would also be a viable choice.
All barriers to entry would be nill and it would demystify all art and produce works of beauty I bet, I think it should be a fundemental part of any society as it is such a huge part of the human expeirence, sometimes I think that reality is just a way for aliens outside our existance to generate art for there enjoyment, lets feed the machine.
everyone in favor of making Ghost of Faso the leader of the United Socialist States of America?
I don’t know about “leader” but maybe department of labor.