A photocopier provides "vastly greater value" than the people who wrote the books? > they can't extract rent now that their past work became valuable for reaso

A photocopier provides "vastly greater value" than the people who wrote the books? > they can't extract rent now that their past work became valuable for reasons they had no part in. That is not the case at all. If I donate food to Africa, I'm happy if it goes to humans. I'm not happy if a Mafia organization steals the food in transit, repackages it and sells it.