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Originally Posted by Sirtel
Well, capitalism isn't fair. Socialism is fair. I grew up in a socialist country. All the prices were fixed. Books cost mere cents and were very affordable, for which I'm truly grateful. I never lacked books in my childhood. But... there was also censure (for example, The Lord of the Rings was forbidden and I didn't get to read it until I was an adult, after the collapse of the Soviet Union). And we all know where socialism as a regime ended up. It bankrupted itself.
Of course capitalism isn't perfect. But it has still been better than alternatives, at least so far.
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When you were getting books for mere cents, were they written by authors who were living under the same regime, or were they written by foreign authors who weren't getting any royalties for them?