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Originally Posted by Keryl Raist
If by luxury you mean decadent and wasteful lily-gilding excess, then no, they aren't.
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I think very little luxury is decadent and wasteful lily-guilding excess. Luxury is anything above and beyond minimum survival requirements. Part of the problem with our current culture is the confusion over luxury and survival. eBooks are not required for survial and neither are paperbooks. Neither is a whole host of things some people are trying to convince us is a 'human right'.
That being said, I'm not against luxury, even for the poor and downtrodden. What I'm against is the inflation of luxury to the status of some sort of minimum daily requirement. A human 'right' if you will. You have no 'right' to cheap and easily available ebooks.