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Don’t even joke about it. Libraries should be free to the public, period. Providing free access to library services to the public is one of the most important b
by mock-possum 3y ago
Don’t even joke about it. Libraries should be free to the public, period. Providing free access to library services to the public is one of the most important benefits government should offer their citizens.
- kazinator 3y agoNothing like a library debate to bring out the virtue signaling rhetoric about low-income families. But, hold your horses; the proposal is actually about having some people who pay, in exchange for a few meager perks. Not to make it an entirely paid system. Here in Canada, we sort of have a working healthcare system. (Not like in civilized countries in the EU, or in Japan, though; another topic). Anyway, I can visit an emergency room and not pay a cent. Yet, people staying in the hospital can pay to upgrade to private rooms. It's just one of those rational compromises in a strained system. Why have a cow at the idea of people donating money to a library in exchange for some privileges, while it continues to be mainly free.