Not when work takes a large amount of time to produce the original, and very little work to produce a copy

if you've never seen someone sell their own creative work without the trappings of a government enforced monopoly, you should look into how any author or artist got paid before the statute of anne.

wrong.

Further reading for anyone interested

In a sense it is a monopoly, just a very narrow one. The first step to identifying a monopoly is identifying the relevant market, and that is quite hard to do, actually.

none of this contradicts what I said. government enforced monopolies are wrong.

that's what copyright and patent are. but you don't need to use the cudgel of the law to sell your work. in fact, most times, it's an irrelevant factor.