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 them
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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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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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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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Replying to @arthur_affect @lawnerdbarak and
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
ok, but, what people *perceive* is the cost *to the publisher* as tied up in the physical book. Yeah, they have to format the ebook files, but they don't need tons of paper and barrels of ink. The real injustice is that the royalty percentage to authors for ebooks isn't higher.
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Replying to @Random832 @lawnerdbarak and
The total amount of extra actual cost for publishing paper books over ebooks is very low This seems perverse to people, but it's true The total discount would be at most a couple bucks per copy, not the 20/30/50% people seem to think is "fair"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Random832 and
And this is offset by the publishers' deep distrust of ebooks as being a source of piracy (despite the best efforts of DRM in the marketplace), meaning the "multiplier" attached to an ebook of "How many people will actually read the book for every 1,000 copies sold" is *higher*
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This also seems perverse to people because of "restrictive" ebook licenses -- where if you, personally, are good and law-abiding and don't rip your ebook, your ebook copy seems far less convenient to you than a physical book would be But it's in fact true
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