And like, sure legally that author would have the right to say "you cant nhave my book for free, please stop messaging me". They Absolutely do.
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Replying to @VivJaye @arthur_affect and
I absolutely don't care though? Single mother, three kids all at home because school is cancelled, still having to go to work all day, sure, download some fucking books for your kids. Buy them each a tablet and download fifty books for each even.
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Okay, cool Considering most authors aren't rich and also their books aren't actually medicine or food, as much as book lovers like to poetically describe them as such, you can't cry foul at them for not wanting to make it easy
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Replying to @arthur_affect @VivJaye and
You know a lot of the writers flipping out about this have disclosed how they're living hand to mouth, they're afraid their careers will go down the toilet because of the virus, and people are reacting to this with "Get a real job" snottiness
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Yeah, sure, and they can certainly join the queue to do something meaningful about that, I'm right there with them.
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If you literally don't care that someone did work that you benefited from and you did nothing to compensate them for it then what can I say to convince you? There's no point I don't know how to convince people who think we don't owe things to other people that we do
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Likewise, I dunno how to convince you that, if the option is not compensating an author and your child sitting alone in an empty house all day, or not compensating an author and your child having something to read, I'll tell people to take the latter and not feel shame about it.
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So it's the price discrimination argument, right, pay what you can? Okay, you personally know what you can and can't afford, and know for a fact that you will never be able to pay for the book so the author didn't lose a sale Fine A lot of authors might even be ok with that
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No, it's the "I used to climb through landfill for toys when I was 8" It's the "my mother once apologised in tears because she couldn't afford a GI Joe to play with my friends, she could only afford a C.O.R.P.S figure, and she knew she'd have to make the.other kids let me play"
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Okay, and? Are writers never poor? Are they the 1% here sitting on piles of unearned cash? Did you miss the threads about trying to support a family on an income that pays less than minimum wage per hour of work? Or working the equivalent of a few job for years to make $2000?
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Yeah, fine, your life is super shitty so you don't give a shit Fine No one was talking about coming after you personally in the first place The only thing people really want from you is to not get in their face and yell at them about how much you don't give a shit about them
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