sm works? Do you not understand the connection between human incentives and then what people actually do?

Copyright is the incentive for me the artist to make art. Without copyright I'm not going to make a thing. But the people who think that copyright should go away, they have this imagination that artists will create things because they have to. Are you kidding me? No no. I do this for a living. We don't do it because we have to. It's not based on some internal urge which I have to get up every single day and spend all of my weekends and all of my holidays making art for people because I just have to.

Now would I make art? Yes I would. If there were no copyrights I would absolutely make art. Then what would I do with it? Put it on my wall. That's it. I'd make some art and then I wouldn't share it with you because why would I? You didn't make any art. You're not paying me for it.

I think people really need to understand that artists also work for money. Do you think I would have made, let's say I think the number of comics I've created now is around 11,000. Do the math for me. 35 years of a comic every day, 365. So do the math. But somewhere in the 11,000 comics, do you think I would have made 11,000 comics just for my own entertainment? No.

We're seeing the end of year stories now, the roundups. And one of the stories I've seen several times is why everyone got it wrong about the economy. Why did everyone, why did everyone, every single person, why did they all get it wrong that the economy would be good this year? Well relatively good.

Well do you know why? Because these are people who make economic predictions for a living and they got it wrong and the people they follow got it wrong so they figure everyone got it wrong. No. I said loudly and publicly, although it's limited to my audience of course