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> giving creative workers more rights without addressing their market power is like giving your bullied kid more lunch money. There isn't an amount of lunch money you can give that kid that will buy them lunch – you're just enriching the bullies
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raldi • yesterday at 3:39 PM
This is the problem with basic income if you don’t also increase the housing supply: landlords will just raise rents and soak it all up.
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doctorpangloss • yesterday at 5:22 PM
haha, you probably want to replace "their" with "[media conglomerates']"
Misleading phrases like this are why I dislike Doctorow.
Just before that he tries to sell us on the idea that there are no alternatives when actually there are. For example, you don’t have to publish a book through the Big Five. There are many large and small independent publishers, and some authors have had good luck with self-publishing.
I do think copyright law needs reform, but don’t trust Doctorow to explain it properly.