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Originally Posted by Giggleton
Might as well start trying to create it now.
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Agreed.
However, almost 100% of your posts focus only on creating that side of the Utopia that favours you. That is, the side in which your desire to read anything you want for free is catered for.
The Utopia wont work unless both sides are catered for.
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Originally Posted by Giggleton
Well I have paid for a few books in the past year. Maybe ten, and I read a few hundred. I think if I had to pay retail price for all those books I read I wouldn't have been able to buy food or pay the rent. Meaning I CANNOT pay for all the books I have read, but I would have if I could.
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Firstly there are ways to be able to fill every spare moment you have with reading whatever you want, including copyrighted material, at no or very little cost. There are libraries, borrowing from friends and family, free books such as the Baen library or similar set ups, joining a purchasing group, the public domain just to name a few. In this way you should not even have enough spare reading time in your day to have to resort to obtaining copyrighted material without compensating the author.
As for the idea that you would pay if you could, I see no evidence of that. All your posts indicate that you only pay for what you choose to pay for. Anything else you choose not to pay for and believe it is your right to do so. The fact you have chosen to pay for a few of the books you have read does not serve as any sort of proof that you would pay for everything if you could, specially in light of your repeated claims to the contrary.
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Originally Posted by Giggleton
I pay about 50 dollars a month for internet access, it has always seemed to me that a large portion of this access fee should be going to the content creators rather than to the telcom executives. It is easy to imagine the negative reactions of some that would surround such a scheme, but change is always hard I suppose.
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Content creators make money in other ways, most notably by people who want their creations paying for them. The $50 a month you pay for internet is for access to the internet, not for the content itself.
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Originally Posted by Giggleton
Members of a society must depend on one another, that is the nature of society. It is in everyone's best interest for everyone to read everything that they wish to. Just my two cents.
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Absolutely members of society must depend on one another.
However, from your posts all I see is your desire to have other members of society support your desire to read anything you want for free. I have never seen anything in your posts that suggest you would be equally prepared to support those other members of society. If anything I see just the opposite since your fundamental position is that the individual should not have to pay for what they want to read unless they want to, which you obviously do not. So you are expecting the author to support you but are unwilling to support the author in return.
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Originally Posted by Giggleton
Lately I have also been thinking of the psychology of payment. I disregard the idea that we have an aversion to placing a worth on something when we do not have to pay for it. I feel the opposite in fact. I find myself paying for art that is available for free. I haven't spent much to be sure, but there is the definite feeling of knowing what you are paying for when you are able to listen to, read, or watch a text in its entirety before paying.
The payment is usually sent directly to the creator so there is more of a connection there as well.
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This is all well and good and it's nice that you sometimes feel like paying for something. However, regardless of the feel good aspect of occasionally dropping a couple of dollars as a magnanimous gesture for something you could have gotten for free, your position still remains fundamentally unchanged. That is, you should only have to pay for what you want to pay for and anything you do not want to pay for should be provided at the expense of society.
Again, that is a lopsided implementation of the Utopian idea you claim to espouse. The Utopia will only work if you are willing to implement it in full, which you seem unwilling to do.