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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Like, publishers are right that, regardless of the merits of ebooks to the consumer, ebooks have been very damaging to the industry in terms of price point People *perceive* the cost of an author's time and labor as being tied up in the physical book
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And people *perceive* that a digital file is "free" (because it's so easy to copy and share, or it feels like it should be) and paying for it is a "tip" It somehow *feels different* to copy a file than to steal an actual book Even though that's total fucking nonsense
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Right. It’s that the individual rule is one part of an overall scheme which lands at a rough approximation of fairness. An individual plank might be irrational. You might even argue that in specific applications it’s unfair. But if you pull it out, fuckery happens
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