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Originally Posted by Giggleton
It is also quite obvious that our society generally does not act in a logical fashion, or even a rational one.
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How big is this society? Does it include just US citizens? Undocumented people? Canadians? European nobility, or just commoners like my daughter the Brit? The hungry? Bill Gates? Prisoners? People in India? People in Tibet?
I lately get most of what I read via free download from amazon.com, having been sent there by an Overdrive public library link. Do I have to start payiing? Hopefully I am in the society of less affluent people who can continue to pay for books through taxes AKA freeload
P.S. Why should the author set the price? A large proportion of the books I read have acknowledgements indicating the book was a group project, with crucial contributions from editors, agents and many others. It may not take a village to raise a child, but it does take what amounts to a village to produce a well-documented book on an ongoing war, or even a truly realistic police procedural. Then there's that perhaps most underpaid group of all, translators.
P.P.S. To state my post more positively, an economy based on money may be fairer than one based on donations. Donations would work best, if they work at all, where the book is the product of a single mind.