In the 00s it would take me a month to hunt down an obscure reference in a book from 1930. Today I can find it in 99% of cases under 30 seconds on libgen. It's

In the 00s it would take me a month to hunt down an obscure reference in a book from 1930. Today I can find it in 99% of cases under 30 seconds on libgen. It's not that I don't want to pay, I don't want to pay for an inferior service that only exists because legacy media is addicted to unsustainable profits. Music isn't free on spotify, but it's a superior service to downloading albums off soulseek so I pay for that, even though 16 year old me in the 00s didn't.