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Originally Posted by SteveEisenberg
If you read through this thread, you would get the idea that people actually behave in accord with their value system. Another possibility, though, is that people realize that they don't have to pay, and then come up with a justification. Hey, it wasn't a bad book, but it's not like it had an impact on my life, so why should I pay?
What happened to your earlier plan for some quasi-governmental entity to compensate creators? Does the prospect of this being a tremendous boon to the big six, and bestselling FoxNews authors, now make this less appealing?
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I would pay, I'm just not sure I could pay a few thousand a year for my reads. So I can use the library, but is imagining that I am using the library the same as using it?
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Originally Posted by Fluribus
If you're referring to wisdom, knowledge, power and such...no, we're stumbling in the dark. And compared to infinity...we're smaller than a grain of sand compared to the universe.
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We are the universe.