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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward
The world doesn't guarantee me a job, (and I haven't had one for over a year), and it doesn't guarantee you a fair royalty for your works.
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Of course not. But do you really want to see the world in which creators cannot be compensated for their work? I don't.
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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward
It's not "the common man" that has run rampant over industries, it's technology that built up industries, and new technology is tearing them back down.
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Wrong. The common man decides, with his wallet. When he buys into something that is culturally, environmentally, or even technologically damaging, simply because it's cheap, he is deciding foolishly. When he refuses to buy until he sees what he wants, and pays for quality, he is acting smartly. Cheap doesn't make right, any more than might makes right. Any good consumer knows
you get what you pay for.
U.S. consumers bought into a non-sustainable credit lifestyle, polluting vehicles, sweat-shop products and mindless pop media, all in the name of the god Cheap... and today, it's costing us. Now consumers are doing their level best to drive e-books over the same cliff by opposing copyright reform, security and compensation (in favor of, in order, none, none and none). And so far, no one has offered anything other than a few
Age of Aquarius-style platitudes to suggest how an e-book market can actually work without any of those things, in what is still an economy-driven politically-motivated world.
The world may not "guarantee" me a fair royalty for my work. But I can dicker with that. If, however, the world tells me "we're just going to take whatever you create and pay you nothing, whether you like it or not," it's not worth my while to create anything for a world like that.