"yes amazon and all these companies are destroying the entire fucking planet and eventually will do everything in their power to pay us as close to slave wages as possible but in the meanwhile i briefly got an advance". sounds like idiots to me.
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Replying to @spacetwinks @arthur_affect
the publishing industry doesn't need to 'implode', per se, but none of these fucking idiots are even invested in reducing their chokehold of power and wealth. it's just "well, worked for me!" - even when it didn't, actually! - and moving on.
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Replying to @spacetwinks @arthur_affect
are these fuckers regularly going "hey wouldn't it be nice if we could fucking make these companies actually pay us well, give us way better payouts, as they get ever richer and we get ever poorer?" no! they fucking shit their pants over pirates constantly instead!
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Replying to @spacetwinks @arthur_affect
congratulations to a bunch of authors being fucking idiots and being unable to see 20 feet into the distance because they're so grateful for the poverty wages they got right in front of them. congratulations to them for focusing on pirates as their publishers rake it in.
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Replying to @spacetwinks @arthur_affect
fucking idiots with learned helplessness. a whole week of them posting their dogshit wages and advances, and instead of going "hey, these companies are screwing us! we should do more to balance out the power here", it's just all about individualism horseshit.
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Replying to @spacetwinks @arthur_affect
and again: wendig can especially choke on shit here. he's actually doing fine. he's not an indie. he's not struggling, not at all. and he doesn't help any of the people who are both of those. just. shits his pants. about. pirates.
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Replying to @spacetwinks
You know he doesn't "shit his pants constantly about pirates", like the viral tweet everyone is mad about is one of the few times I've ever seen him talk about the topic
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Replying to @arthur_affect @spacetwinks
He *was* one of the people siding with the Big 6 against Amazon in 2014, and I'm pretty sure a lot of people who jumped on him were residually pissed at him over that But that clearly wasn't about "piracy", it was about (legal) downward pricing pressure in general
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Replying to @arthur_affect @spacetwinks
Like the fact that this isn't about piracy per se is what's telling to me about this debate, that people were FURIOUSLY on Amazon's side even though they weren't relaxing copyright in any sense at all, just lowering prices for the consumer
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Replying to @arthur_affect @spacetwinks
I'm one of the people who thinks that "high prices, high wages" makes a better society than "low prices, low wages" (and the utopian "low prices, high wages" unfortunately never really happens)
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And it really feels like people rooting for downward pricing pressure - $9.99 ebooks, no separate ebook license fees, making it easy to get stuff for free if you really want to - are the shortsighted ones Like rooting for Uber because it's cheaper than taxis
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