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There's this ongoing problem where a few artists become fabulously rich while most others end up having to pay for the privilege of creating art. It seems to me that there should be more of a middle ground, where most artists who work hard and produce reasonable product could at least make a basic living from creating art.

This idea was one of the reasons I originally started my online store (now [[vbz.net]]), but circumstances pushed me away from working on that issue. I'd like to start getting back to it.
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* [http://www.bricklin.com/artistspaid.htm How will the artists get paid?] by Dan Bricklin