Okay, so Spotify, Facebook, Amazon, Getty Images and many other platforms make billions by taking massive advantage of people who create and post and people who enjoy the posts.

Question: If the people who made and posted things and the people who used, and enjoyed the post or the item controlled the place where makers and users met--the marketplace--the makers and users could simply pay for any costs associated with the transaction, without inflating those costs to enrich a third-party marketplace owner, right?

It seems like we creative makers and users are all too willing to give up the benefits of our time and labor to those who control the marketplace.

AI seems to add a whole new dimension to this. As a creative AI gives me tools to improve my work. I'm a terrible speller, have ADHD and AI is helping me right now with my spelling. Hopefully, it's helping me make my thought clear to me and to readers.

But AI is using the creative work of billions of people who thought, wrote, drew, photographed, filmed and created the information that is used to correct my spelling. Should I be compensating those people? Or could we find a way to share that past pool of work so all can use it and all could share the costs involved.

As I write and think about this it occurs to me that perhaps I'll be called a communist for suggesting that we share! Yikes!