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Originally Posted by Giggleton
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No. If the author cannot write them, the books will not be written. If the author has to squeeze writing around their day job, a whole lot less works will be written. Dickens was able to write because he could make a living by writing. You would silence the voice of people who had to make a living. What you would be left with would be those who had inherited wealth and were able to write as a full time hobby. There's nothing wrong with such books, but they shouldn't be the only books.
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Money is a bit strange, what if when someone dies all their money is just erased from the system? Just an idea, it probably needs some work.
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People then would have no reason to trust that their money would have any value, and the economy would quickly collapse. The instant people got some money, they would exchange it for something else: precious metals, jewels or anything that retains value. That is assuming that anyone would take this worthless money in the first place. It's an idea that needs scrapping.
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You are definitely right about food, why is the most nutritious food also the most expensive?? (at least in the supermarket).
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It's simply not true. Processed foods can be very expensive. A box of macaroni and cheese is just a couple cents worth of macaroni and some cheap "cheese" powder. A package of beans and rice has a few cents worth of rice and beans and a few spices. I could make that myself for cheaper. If you buy that macaroni yourself, it's much cheaper. You can put together a very nutritious meal quite cheaply. Processed foods save time rather than money and require no knowledge or skill to prepare.
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What if I told you that I had a time machine that is magically set to take me to the exact moment when my librarycopy that I have placed on hold is ready to be sent to my ereader? You might be asking why would I have to use a timemachine to get ebooks, its crazy I know, but I think you understand what I mean.
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And even if you had a time machine... so what?
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Is the purpose of a library hold to increase publisher profits??
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The purpose of the library is to provide books to people in order to have a more educated populace. The means by which they do this is buy BUYING books.