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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Yair" data-source="post: 1558623" data-attributes="member: 10913">I believed it was 50 mil, but it seems you know what you are talking about <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />I am not saying I have a solution; I don't. I am not saying I have an economic model to replace supply and demand, I don't.I am saying that I PERSONALLY consider 150K$ sufficient pay for the amount of effort and talent spent, and do not see it as a moral imperative that I give her more money. (I do not see it as WRONG to give her more money - just not morally required.)Frankly, if I would get 150K$ worth for the same amount of work, I would be very pleased. Now, I am not as talented (supposedly, or I would MAKE that much money, and setting artistic tastes aside here), so I am willing to give her more than I would expect for the same work. But I think 150K is enough. (For the record, I make approximately 12K a year, pre-taxes, at best.)Is it "fair" that a poor person like me (relatively to little Ms. Spears) will judge her by his own standards? Actually, I think it is.(Of course, one also has to take into account producing the album, not just the money the artists gets; but I suggest the with those sales the producers have been adequately reimburced for their efforts and hard work.)It is certainly not legal to steal from someone if they are rich enough. Moral, now? Well, Robin Hood is not generally thought of as evil. It depends.In any case, I am not stealing; I am just not paying for something the law says I should. IThat is a different matter, and has different moral standards. Using D&D Alignments, I think it is actually Neutral to download her music without paying - a truly Good person would give the money instead to the needy, perhaps a budding artist; a truly Evil person would refuse to purchase any products and do what he can to subotage her income. I contend myself with feeling OK about not paying some of the time, and purchasing a rare album here and there (even though they are often deriving excessive profits as well).Perhaps it is my upbringing. My family is exempt from some taxes, for example; my father pays them as charity instead. My parents have a lot of savings (relatively) and some real estate; but we do not have much in the way of products (though lately we did purchase some pretty expensive geriatric equipment - but that's antoher matter altogether). Honestly, living above a certain standard of living is to me a minor sin - it is indulgence. And I am not too keen to support it.Conviniently, that standard of living is my family's standard of living... perhaps I am just hypocritical.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f615.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":confused:" title="Confused    :confused:"  data-smilie="5"data-shortname=":confused:" /></blockquote>

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