Apparently anyone who wants to get paid for their writing is the devil.
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Replying to @all_the_Mindy @arthur_affect
There will never be a shortage of people who pay for books. The only people hurt by this are people that either wouldn't have bought the books, and people that couldn't. Classist moralising at it's worst.
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Replying to @lunis @all_the_Mindy
You know this is the same kind of argument people make for why it's okay to make waiters work for tips
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Replying to @arthur_affect @all_the_Mindy
Arthur I've admired your tweets for years but this is embarrassing.
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Equating labor to digitized information sucks ass and anyone worth a damn should know better
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Replying to @lunis @all_the_Mindy
I am fully aware that compensating people per copy sold is a deeply imperfect way of compensating labor (just like playing a live show doesn't become more work the more people buy tickets, or for that matter waiting a table becomes harder if they order more expensive food)
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That said, it really, honestly is the best way we have in a lot of fields, or at least the one many creators say works best for them If you have a way to make this unnecessary by signing up authors for a regular per-hour salary from the Art Factory, I'm all for it
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But until then, it's like sneaking into a concert and being all "I didn't steal anything, you were gonna play the same show either way" (an analogy I got from
@Hal_Duncan) You're technically correct but you're being a dick, especially if you actually say it directly to them1 reply 5 retweets 48 likes -
Replying to @arthur_affect @lunis and
Like "Okay I ordered the steak this time but I tipped you the same amount as if I ordered the burger You don't mind, right? I mean it's the same amount of work for *you* either way" Yeah okay dude it's legal but you violated a social convention that exists for a reason
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Replying to @arthur_affect @lunis and
“Our society uses a distributional rule whose practical outcome is designed to land us at a good approximation of justice” “I cheated the distributional rule because doing so didn’t work an intrinsic injustice” “Friendo, that’s nonresponsive to the purpose of the rule.”
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I think what gets me here is that people do, in fact, understand that these systems are sloppy and inconsistently enforced, they're a form of price discrimination
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Replying to @arthur_affect @lawnerdbarak and
The single dollar I tip a bartender for getting me a glass of water doesn't actually cover their labor costs for being there to serve me The understanding is that I am being subsidized by the person who orders 4 or 5 overpriced mixed drinks, because they probably have more money
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Replying to @arthur_affect @lawnerdbarak and
And when you attack the underpinnings of these systems as being "irrational" ("Why should I have to tip based on a % of the bill?") you have a point but you aren't seeing the big picture of why that system exists and how if you remove it you gotta replace it
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