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Originally Posted by ZodWallop
Man, even if I don't agree, I've been empathetic to your overall point. But this entire post is absolutely ludicrous. I'd swear you're pulling all our legs here, having a private joke.
I grew up a poor kid in section 8 housing (I believe you guys call it public housing). I borrowed books from the library and I remember having to wait weeks for Judy Blume's Superfudge when it was the hot book. Yet it never occurred to me that Judy Blume was obligated to swing by my house and sell me a copy at a fair price (which for me at that age would have been pennies) because I just couldn't wait to read the book. Reading the latest Harry Potter book isn't a right and really isn't even important in the grand scheme of things.
I didn't get a Members only jacket when they were the fad. Because not everything in life is affordable by everyone.
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And, if memory serves, JKRowling was
hardly some upper-class housewife when she wrote them, either.
Someday I will understand the mindset of people who truly believe that their wish for free entertainment is a damn right. You have rights--a right to live, a right to breathe, pay taxes and die. Entertainment? You have NO "right" to entertainment. Don't have money? Go fishing. Take a walk in the woods. Go hang out with friends, and laugh--costs nothing. Make up your OWN stories--costs nothing.
Want to read the work that someone ELSE did? Want to see the latest Avengers movie, that someone paid $100M to film? That costs
money, and it costs whatever those selling it choose to charge, greed or otherwise. It took Rowling what, 10 years and thousands and thousands of notepages, manuscript pages, etc., to write the HP saga? And you think you should have been entitled to her ebook versions, for
free?
So, what's more important--your FREE entertainment, or her massive and I mean,
MASSIVE donations to Charity, for people who
need things like food, clean water, clothes and a roof over their heads? You'll forgive me if I think that Bill Gates having single-handedlwipedty much wiping out polio in India is more important than you getting a free XBox game, yeah? Or is some imaginary "right" to free or el-cheapo entertainment more important than her donations to the actual POOR? (and Yes, I'm
fully aware that she could have, like Jobs, kept every bloody penny that she earned, and not given away a thin cent, but she
did, as has Gates.)
This is absolutely leg-pulling time. Because this
can't be a real post.
Hitch