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Knowledge is a Privilege

Name: Anonymous 2014-06-19 15:30

I will acknowledge that pricing on eBooks is not ideal, but pricing is a different conversation--you can't just take what you want, when you want, because you disagree with what's being charged. An eBook is a luxury, not a right. If you can't afford it, too bad, but that's life. If you go to Target and they have a flatscreen television you like, but you can't afford it, can you just take it? No.

Name: Anonymous 2014-06-19 15:38

An eBook is a luxury, not a right
Why? Why not just make it legal to download eBooks, then it would no longer be a luxury and this wouldn't even be a issue. Did you ever think of that?

Name: Anonymous 2014-06-19 15:53

you can't just take what you want, when you want, because you disagree with what's being charged

What if the global economic system built by the United States of America constantly deprives me of my rightful wealth? Do I have a moral right to steal eBooks made in USA?

Name: Anonymous 2014-06-19 15:57

>>2

Then there will be no eBooks. Better limiting knowledge to those who can afford it, than leaving everyone equally ignorant.

Name: Anonymous 2014-06-19 15:58

>>1
Your statements are all absolute and have no supporting arguments. So this isn't an attempt at a debate. You are just advertising your view point. Fuck off.

Name: Anonymous 2014-06-19 16:01

>>4
Then there will be no eBooks
How can you assert this? Do you have any proof legalizing downloading eBooks would cause all production of eBooks to cease, or are you just pulling this out of your ass?

Name: Anonymous 2014-06-19 16:04

>>3

global economic system built by the United States of America constantly deprives me of my rightful wealth
No one is guilty that you're such a loser. Stop whining and get a paying job.

Name: Anonymous 2014-06-19 16:07

>>6

No incentive to publish knowledge. Peer-review journals will be forced to close and the only publications remain would be that of insane people, like Mentifex, who doesn't need to pass review.

Name: Anonymous 2014-06-19 16:08

>>7
Why don't you move to India and get a Job, faggot

p.s. also don't download any ebooks or i will drone you

Name: Anonymous 2014-06-19 16:13

>>9

Indians are inborn losers bathing in mental depravity, without a will to change their society and better themselves. The Hinduism itself favors degradation and stagnation, compared to the civilized protestantism and judaism.

Name: Anonymous 2014-06-19 16:16

>>8
The ability to legally download eBooks would not destroy all monetary incentive necessarily. Anyone can already download anything they fucking want and most people do. If the only reason for the illegality of downloading eBooks is to keep the incentive for publishers to exist maybe you can just create laws to force people to write books along with the laws forcing people from downloading them. More laws will surely solve the problem, right?

Name: Anonymous 2014-06-19 16:16

>>7
Why are US and EU average salaries 5-10 times higher than in the rest of the world? Are Americans the best workers in the world? But they are for the most part glaringly uneducated, obese, and spend most of their waking lives in a drugged condition. I don't belive that the average Ammie deserves his salary more than I do. But no single individual can change the global slavery system built by the US, therefore it is only rightful for non-Americans to steal any American property whenever they can.

Name: Anonymous 2014-06-19 16:22

>>13
Americans artificially keep their wages high through legal measures like minimum wage laws. They also create laws to keep foreigners from competing in the domestic market to protect their wages. If Americans really wanted to stay true to their free market principles they should allow all Mexican labor to come to America and compete against them on an open market, but they won't because they know Mexicans can work cheaper and better than them. Fucking fat ignorant sons of bitches should all be fucking killed.

Name: Anonymous 2014-06-19 16:23

>>13

Why are US and EU average salaries 5-10 times higher than in the rest of the world?
Because US and EU residents are hardworking people, while Indians are lazy slackers. If you don't like your salary, work harder and you will get promoted.

Name: Anonymous 2014-06-19 16:25

>>14

Nobody stops India from doing the same and passing better laws. Yet Indians prefer to burn their women alive instead.

Name: Anonymous 2014-06-19 16:32

>>15
Because US and EU residents are hardworking people, while Indians are lazy slackers.
BULLSHIT, why not allow Indians to move to America and let them compete freely against "hardworking" Americans then? Because you know Americans are lazy pampered babies who would have their salaries driven down. Statistics prove immigrants in America are more successful and have a higher chance of class mobility than natives.

Name: Anonymous 2014-06-19 16:32

>>15
Fat, McDonalds-munching Prozac and Xanax addicts who can't spell "you're" or "it's" in their own language are "hard-working people"? That's a piece of baloney if there ever was one.

Name: Anonymous 2014-06-19 16:37

>>17

BULLSHIT, why not allow Indians to move to America and let them compete freely against "hardworking" Americans then?
Because America already carries more useless niggers than it can bear.

Name: Lazy American 2014-06-19 16:39

I would like to become multilingual but it's hard to find the motivation when everyone else is already learning english. Oh the pain.

Name: Anonymous 2014-06-19 16:42

Name: Anonymous 2014-06-19 16:59

>>20
The Chinese aren't. In fact, your children (if any) will probably learn Chinese.

Name: TPOBCI 2014-06-19 17:15

The Pleasure Of Being Cummed Inside.

Name: Anonymous 2014-06-19 17:38

>>5
No, >>1 is not advertising eir own viewpoints, >>1 is trolling you, quite successfully I'd say.

Name: Anonymous 2014-06-19 17:40

"Hardworking American" is codeword for "slave".

Name: Anonymous 2014-06-19 17:44

>>24
What does "eir" mean? Is it even a word?

Name: Anonymous 2014-06-19 18:37

Fuck off, ebook salesman!

Name: Anonymous 2014-06-19 18:38

Name: Anonymous 2014-06-19 19:21

>>28

David Spivak
Shalom!

Name: Anonymous 2014-06-19 19:25

Michael David Spivak
American mathematician

Shaloooooooooom!

Name: Anonymous 2014-06-19 21:04

It is an undeniable fact that e``books'' have not and will not ever even come close to being as popular as physical books.

Name: Anonymous 2014-06-19 21:14

hax my anus

Name: Anonymous 2014-06-19 22:12

>>31

i know very few poeple who read books, but moar who read ebooks naow kids dont boooks but read ebooks irl

Name: Anonymous 2014-06-19 22:33

>>33
Kill yourself you low IQ imbecile.

Name: Anonymous 2014-06-19 22:43

>>31
Not if I can help it.

*scans dick*

Name: Anonymous 2014-06-20 3:08

>>31
Sure, but that's only because we're stuck with 640k which is not enough to support an acceptable ereader application.

Name: Anonymous 2014-06-20 14:52

France is Bacon.

Name: Anonymous 2014-06-21 5:14

>>1
Can't you just take your eBook to the eLibrary and flash your eLibrary Card etc...?

Name: Anonymous 2014-06-21 5:18

Why make something that is easier to share even harder to borrow?

Name: Anonymous 2014-06-21 5:24

Do they even charge for library cards?

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