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Were you paid for this comment? Or did you write it out of your own desire to convey what you are thinking? I wonder if the answer to these questions also reso
by waboremo 4y ago
Were you paid for this comment? Or did you write it out of your own desire to convey what you are thinking?
I wonder if the answer to these questions also resolves the unfounded idea that writers will stop writing when capitalism ceases to exist.
- QuadrupleA 4y agoSo writing an HN comment and writing a good book are the same level of effort? And I just wrote two books? Basically you're saying authors should be forced to work for free, with day jobs to pay the bills, and writing on nights and weekends, rather than having their craft be a viable profession. Fine, and it's probably where things are going, but kinda sad in my opinion. And the hypocrisy of book stealers thinking they're some kind of Che Guevara is pretty silly.
- Eisenstein 4y agoThis entire line of reasoning is predicated on the fact that there is no public funding of such things. If there were a way to make a living creating works without relying on selling them, then this wouldn't be an issue. Instead of talking about why sharing is bad, why don't we talk about how to publicly support creation?
- Vt71fcAqt7 4y ago>the unfounded idea that writers will stop writing when capitalism ceases to exist. Where did GP make that claim? Closest I found was that copyright violation is "taking away a lot of the incentive to write anything of value." That may or may not be true but they certainly did not say that "writers will stop writing when capitalism ceases to exist."
- IanCal 4y agoI don't think you reading their comment without paying them was against their wishes, was it?