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> Let's give everyone free food and housing too. They're even more important. Call it "social fair use." Yes, you're right. Let's do this. This is more or les
by yakireev 7y ago
> Let's give everyone free food and housing too. They're even more important. Call it "social fair use."
Yes, you're right. Let's do this.
This is more or less what governments are supposed to do in the time of trouble like these: make sure that people who lost the means of supporting themselves at no fault of their own don't starve and are not left in the streets en masse. If that implies giving them free food and free shelter, then it should be done. If your government leaves people to die of hunger in the streets instead - you have a really shitty government, please get a new one.
Heck, even the most right-wing governments, like the US one, are distributing free money (which converts into free food) right now.
Seriously, if you think that letting people read an out-of-print book or two for free while quarantined is somehow bad or immoral, I think you should recalibrate your world views.