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
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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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“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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Replying to @lawnerdbarak @lunis and
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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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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Replying to @arthur_affect @lawnerdbarak and
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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Replying to @arthur_affect @lawnerdbarak and
But you know the argument here! If I take a physical thing someone else can't have that thing. But me having a copy of the Mona Lisa doesn't mean the copy in the Louvre is at risk.
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The consumer-focused standpoint that the reason to put a price tag on something is that your consumption creates scarcity for other consumers is the whole problem here The issue is not the consumer, either way, it's the producer
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Replying to @arthur_affect @lawnerdbarak and
Right, and I'm saying that if the producer has been paid a fair amount for their art then why should they have to worry about the number of people accessing it?
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Replying to @phyphor @arthur_affect and
We have successfull models for people to make creative works, and get paid for it. It's not the greatest, because Patreon taking a massive cut for doing nothing is a problem, but it works for lots of people.
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