I love to see people saying "Why are you dumb authors mad about piracy when it's your publishers that are the real predatory content thieves? Why aren't you organizing against them - or, better yet, going independent?" Near-total confidence born of near-total ignorance
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FUCKING THIS so much of this sort of rhetoric is basically just a dressed-up appeal to pastoralism, a reflexive hatred of the *bureaucracy* and *systems* a just and complex modern world requires "wasn't it better when a man could provide for himself?!"
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Just. Fuck. So much of the discourse around all these topics is appeals to *FANTASY. "I can envision a kinder world, it is therefore possible and inevitable if we just get the middlemen/systems/structures out of the way."
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Dude spot on.
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Funny how many of those guys will take your money to facilitate transactions and exchanges, almost as though they were in... the... middle....
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