The whole modern patronage system is so backwards, it’s all backwards, you should be paying artists to not have to make anything anymore. If you think my art is valuable you should pay me to stop having to do it. If you think it’s really bad you should pay me to stop making it.
Empirically, people are often ‘lazy’, ‘sloppy’ or otherwise perform below their peak abilities. Such behavior can only be optimal if it saves some valuable resource that is part of the cost function.
Sloppy seconds confirmed to be optimal in the interests of public welfare















