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Originally Posted by leebase
It is not wrong for books to exist that are priced beyond the means of some. If we gave in to the childish notion that "Billy can't afford this particular book therefore all books should be free" would not result in a good situation for "Billy". It would merely result in ALL of use not having new books to read. Billy's lot in life is unchanged and everyone else's is made poorer.
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If ending the silly notion of enforcing artificial scarcity means that all writers who are in it for the money stop writing and the only writers left are those who do it for the art and the pleasure of writing-- I'm perfectly okay with that.