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Originally Posted by Giggleton
It seems to me that if everyone just read whatever they felt like reading and paid who they can what they could, everything would be fine.
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What HansTWN said.
There is no real world amount corresponding to what I could pay. What I can pay without going hungry is a lot different from what I can pay while still subscribing to high-speed internet, or what I can pay while still going on a vacation every year or two, or what I can pay without having to make my kids take out college tuition loans. Since I very much want to do all that, I'm going to say that what I can pay is very little. And so I am going to keep on getting most of my reading material from public libraries, Project Gutenberg, and free newspaper web sites.
Under your proposal, I think that the only books which could be published are those with minimal research costs.