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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
"All the money in the world," and "whatever he's clever enough to get" (my exact words), are not the same thing. I certainly did not say I wanted all the money in the world, and that statement does not even imply that I do.
So, in fact, you are dictating how much I have a right to earn, and deciding that I am greedy. Even without my putting a single dollar figure down.
Any worker has a right to earn what he can on his work. Any consumer (you) has the right to walk away from a sale, if you believe it is too much. You personally do not have the right to tell someone else what they are entitled to earn... period. You personally cannot dictate to someone you don't know what they "deserve"... period.
"Greed" is in the eye of the beholder, whether it is triggered at 100 billion, 1 million, $2.50... or some imaginary, arbitrary figure that you want to use to label me greedy and justify not paying for something I'm selling.
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I pay everything I buy.
And I'm not justifying anything. Not even piracy or theft or robbery.
I just put a simple question: what's the maximum amount to be considered "fair" for a single book to make.
Maybe I didn't understand what you wrote, but I'm sure you don't said something like "the maximum is somewhere, but I don't know where". What you wrote sounded more like "there's no maximum".
Or, "if somebody is clever enough to get all the money in the world [which is the physical limit, or the actual "infinite"], he deserves it".
That's how I read it.
So please be patient and say whether you believe there's a limit to the money anyone can make for a single book or not.
I'm not putting a limit myself.
I'm not saying in any way how much you deserve. I'm just asking you how much YOU think you deserve.
And I won't never judge that amount. I wont never say if it's too much, or too little. I will never call you "greedy" wherever that limit is.
What I call "greed" is to not have a limit. To never say "that's enough for me. Now let somebody else have his share". To ever want some more, whatever one's got. To have an insatiable desire for wealth.
From my point of view, that and piracy are two faces of the same coin.
