So if I wanted to write some notes or edit a photo you’re saying I should pay a team of developers to write custom code for me up front?
Literally nothing works like that.
There’s a huge difference between creative work and intellectual property, and a huge difference between the cost of creation and the cost of distribution.
The cost of distribution approaches zero. Once it's made, it's not actually scarce anymore. Intellectual property laws are all about creating artificial scarcity in order to increase distribution costs so as to compensate for the creation costs. Sooner or later, reality will reassert itself: people will pirate your product whether the laws allow it or not, simply because they can.
The ideal intellectual economy would be based on patronage where large amounts of people liberally support the creators they like. That way creators get compensated for the labour of creation, not the final result. Historical opposition to patronage involves fear of suppression by rich elites but now we have crowdfunding technology that enables sufficient decentralization, mitigating that risk.
Literally nothing works like that.
There’s a huge difference between creative work and intellectual property, and a huge difference between the cost of creation and the cost of distribution.