I feel like I stumbled into a communist hotbed.
Why oh why won't you guys think of the shareholders?
Do you have
any idea how much it costs to berth and unberth a yacht?
Writings are easier to produce and distribute so it makes perfect sense that a book should cost as much, or more, than it did when we had to harvest papyrus, cut stalks, and hunt octopi.
I don't understand why people are confused. Yes it feels like a transaction, and an exchange of goods, but that's an illusion. What actually happened was you gave me your hard earned money to look at my thing. And if other people want to look at my thing then they also must pony up with the lucre.
Why are all of you looking at me in this manner?
The right to greater profit. That's right! I said it.
The right to greater profit is protected by the Constitution. Firmly protected!
It is the greatest of all rights. Supersedes all others. Especially your right to do what you want with something you own.
You have any idea how expensive it was to convince lawmakers to write words that turn a tangible thing into an intangible thing, yet tangible enough to have a
strict definition with awesome penalties for violating it? You can't just pay
one you know? You have to create this entire (can't call it cottage industry, skyscraper industry?) industry. And you have to get them to take up opposing points, and argue, so when it gets to the inevitable conclusion people are satisfied that there was debate. That's not cheap.
What it is, is right and lawful, and natural. Perfectly natural, that's what the people I pay to say that say. Just the immutable law of nature. Natural, the opposite of man-made. Natural just like constitutions.
What do you mean
which constitution?
All the constitutions.
It's right there beside the part underneath where supreme beings get help from fragile creatures that can't help themselves but mysteriously, are somehow powerful enough to provide aid and assistance to omniscient, omnipotent ones.
So just a little sympathy eh? It's not easy being a shareholder.
Commies!