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I want an amnesty on piracy, paid for by an increase in my taxes, then used to fund government grants and financial support for content creators.

Content should default to free and accessible, with few exceptions. Content creators should be able to earn a living.

Those two statements are not mutually exclusive, but the current status quo makes them so.

Essentially, a basic income?

That would also create content creators. That is, allow people who would not normally create content from lack of time or security to begin doing so.

It would also eliminate the waste caused from having a big department to determine who exactly "content creators" are.

Yep, that'd do it. :-)