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Originally Posted by Giggleton
What I meant was that why are we content with a system that gives us the capability to read whatever we wish while not having mechanisms in place to reward those who have written what we read?
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Well at present we are not content with such a system since there is no such system at present. The closest we have come is a system that allows a few people such as yourself to read whatever they like without rewarding the author whilst the rest of us do reward the author, thus ensuring that more works are written which those who choose not to reward the author can then go and read.
If you are talking about some future system then all I can say is at present you are content with a system in which you read whatever you like and chose not to reward those who have written what you have read. I see nothing in your posts that suggests your preferred system would change any time in the future.
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Originally Posted by Giggleton
Eventually funds for printed books will run out, and then quasi funds for ebooks will run out as well.
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And your basis for this claim is what exactly?
If you mean eventually we will create the Net 2.0 Utopia you bang on about and there will be no need for money then great. So long as the full Utopia is created. On the other hand if you mean funds are just going to mysteriously disappear without any mechanism for payment being set up to replace money then I would suggest the lack of books being written will be waaaaay down on the list of things that have gone wrong by that point so it wont really matter.
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Originally Posted by Giggleton
What is the library to do then? Tell you to pay more for more books... In other words, most likely raised taxes.
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It seems you can't get past the idea of everyone paying more taxes so you don't have to pay for any of the books you want to read. I'm going to go out on a limb and postulate that you probably don't pay much if any taxes yourself right? So higher taxes wouldn't be much of a burden on you, just something everyone else should need to stump up for your reading pleasure.
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Originally Posted by Giggleton
Underutilizing a technology could be considered immoral.
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Indeed it could. So could expecting authors to be your bitch and keep knocking out stuff for you to read without any payment in return.