Jfc I really hate how "how dare professional authors ask for a living wage and not getting their labor pirated by people or treated as a cheap pastime" is becoming left dogma.
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Replying to @loudpenitent
The goalposts of this conversation continually and seemingly deliberately move away from "publishing needs to change so writers can eat" to "I, a writer you love, have had my lunch SNATCHED!" but it's never their publisher or wider industry issues that did the snatching.
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Replying to @thelionmachine @loudpenitent
The publisher seriously did not do any snatching The narrative that authors are only poor because publishers abusively take an exorbitant cut is bullshit
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The self-publishing revolution Amazon was selling to everyone in the Amazon vs Hachette dispute, that creators would all be richer without these parasitic middlemen getting in the way, has come to jack shit
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