Thread: Access to Knowledge: YEA or NAY
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Old 03-21-2012, 08:25 PM   #383
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Originally Posted by bill_mchale View Post
A Minimum wage job pays $7.25/hour. At that rate, working full time, you would make around $15,000/year. At $10 a book (on average) you could buy 1500 books, or 4 books a day.

If you are not working full time, then obviously the number will be less, but that is why there are libraries and the public domain. More than enough reading to keep a body going to many, many years.

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Bill
Why bother going to my library, asking a librarian to procure a book for me, which might need to be shipped halfway around the world and back again, when I can just download it?
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