>If anything the machine learning model showed that when people voluntarily and intentionally fund the publication of books they prefer a certain type of langua

>If anything the machine learning model showed that when people voluntarily and intentionally fund the publication of books they prefer a certain type of language This is really the springboard into what you just mentioned - economic forces affect art and culture but they also affect our desires. Exactly these "voluntary" and "intentional" purchases come about through what Patrick Murray calls imaginary subsumption under capital. This is a consequence of what the author addresses - real subsumption under capital. You need to ask why people prefer books that use a certain type of language and how the culture which prefers this type of language arose. Of course the answer isn't wholly economically deterministic, but it seems short sighted (and missing the author's point) to stop the back at "well people did it voluntarily, what more do you want?" - culture is a dialactical process.