I'm not sure looking at creators as "labor" is the right framing. For one, there's no labor theory of value in art. A song that takes an hour to write might make millions or might be heard by five people. The economically interesting part about "intellectual property" is that you make it once and it pays dividends forever (or at least until copyright runs out). It might be better characterized as an asset, like a car or land. imo it makes more sense to arm individual creators with their own licensing rights and build a way for them to issue contracts and negotiate their own licensing terms, instead of offloading that to a third party which then distributes via platforms. anyway thanks for thinking about this it's an important topic !