Other authors *are still artisans*, but because they are selling a completed product to a third party for resale. They are different groups of people.

I am also going to try and be measured here, but I think it is quite clear from the content that I am talking about circumstances where the author maintains control of their IP. I am aware that this is not the traditional publishing path. This is a very specific group of people

I went to great pains in that post to point out that I am talking about a very specific kind of author. I am fully aware that it is not the majority of authors. It is a particular subset who are more concerned with Producing Monetisable IP than the craft itself.

seeing depictions of the crucifixion where the romans are wearing full gothic plate is so funny to me

"DEI" is just that they're mad about black people. Antiimmigration is just racism. The birth rate stuff is racism and misogyny. Political correctness was racism and misogyny. Feminazi - misogyny.

And why? Easy. They want to own black people again, they want to own women.

thus they are not selling the value of their labour for less than it is worth, transferring surplus value to their boss simply because he owns the MOP, and withdrawing their labour power has no effect aside from hurting themselves by not working. This is true for any craftsperson, any artisan

yes, many in the petit bourgeoisie are in a worse economic position than the proletariat. Bourgeois does not inherently denote wealth, it just means that you own your means of production. For an author, their capital is writing materials and their imagination. They are not renting that from a boss

It’s kind of funny to think that people find the idea of lab meat disgusting but factory farms aren’t. Like a hot dog would be more disgusting if the meat was grown in a lab instead of sweeping the byproducts up off the butchers room floor and forming a paste that you extrude into a pig’s intestine.