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Originally Posted by sirbruce
While I can appreciate a rant against consumerist culture, aren't you missing the point? You're saying "Hey, because of your culture, you can't help that people steal copyrighted stuff, so if you want to stop that, you should change other aspects of the culture." Would you say the same thing about racism in America, which is surely a product of its culture more than anything? Sure, yes, tackling the cultural roots of racism is essential for future generations... but that doesn't mean you also don't take action to combat racism itself in its current forms, rather than simply accept them.
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Perhaps, if the consequences of file-sharing were as dire and disgusting as those of racism, but (obviously) I'm not really sure the analogy works.
Despite what authors or content creators might want you to believe, they're not quite slaves doing menial labor yet (although there is something to be said for that if you look at the
contracts they sign :P), nor does alienation of labor compare to the effects that systematic discrimination has on people (never mind what you read from Marx's hand).