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Originally Posted by Giggleton
In this era, the container is no longer needed. (Besides the global technological infrastructure) All we do is distribute knowledge. Creators should be compensated, but we need universal access to knowledge. This means more than an interlibrary loan, this means everyone having the ability to distribute everything.
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And he we are back to your book commissar idea. You propose all books to be free, and the book commissar determines how much the total pool of compensation for authors will be, and which authors get compensated. To determine what books get compensated, you propose that our devices spy upon us to determine what we read and when to report back the book commissar.
A dictator is not going to make wise of just decisions about who should be compensated. Even with your Big Brother reporting in this, the book commissar doesn't know if you liked a book or endured it. Why should a book that took you little time to read be worth less than one that took a long time to read? Perhaps little time was spent reading the former book because the reader enjoyed it and read it quickly, while the latter book was a chore to read.
We already have the most just and accurate system possible: people paying for books they want to read. Who knows better than you what you want to read? We don't need book commissars or gulags.