I feel like, okay, why not entertain this as a thought experiment, but my question is how that would actually look in practical terms- how would it be done in a way that doesn't look a lot like, I don't know, unpaid internships or the publishing industry where the only people who can afford to do the work are people who are independently wealthy or have a lot of generational wealth behind them? Who in 2024 is earning enough to make a living and put in this kind of work on the side?
I feel like, okay, why not entertain this as a thought experiment, but my question is how that would actually look in practical terms- how would it be done in a way that doesn't look a lot like, I don't know, unpaid internships or the publishing industry where the only people who can afford to do the work are people who are independently wealthy or have a lot of generational wealth behind them? Who in 2024 is earning enough to make a living and put in this kind of work on the side?