I would rather have a world where we all trust each other and accept that a few people will take advantage of it than a world where folks have to perform disability constantly in order to get the help they need. Let kids have an extra 30 minutes on the test, jesus fucking christ

this but also: anarchist carrying spherical bomb with fuse coming out of it in old-timey movie

We are so close to the factionalism timeline that results in

Continuity Your Party
Party for You (provisional revolutionary committee)

do you have a GUI frontend or are you just p-

Your Party could play a useful role in siphoning off the factionalists

All of the arguments that they put forth would serve just as easily as arguments against borrowing books, buying secondhand or even using a library (which usually pays royalties but incredibly low ones). But societally we've labelled those as 'Good' actions, so they get a pass.

The writers in question were complaining about young people using it to read books they couldn't otherwise afford, & scoffing at the idea that this is morally okay, which I'm fairly confident in labelling Politically Bad even if it comes from an understandable place of frustration/pain.

Eh, I've used libgen for plenty of stuff, eg situations where I've bought a book in one format and want it in another, or as a digital equivalent for the practice of reading 40% of the book in the bookshop before I decide I want to commit to it.

Somewhat tediously, the only real solution here is anarcho-communism. (I should probably just screenshot this skeet and use it as a catchall reaction image).

In the end, he found most stability, like many litfic authors and poets, in teaching writing. And in fact MFAs are largely how the literary arts get funded still. But a field where the only money is in teaching others (& implicitly or explicitly feeding a false dream) is economically broken.

I think of Edmund White, of my favourite authors, and undoubtably a successful one. His autobiography is full of graft, scrabbling to find sources of income to support his writing. And this was the 70s, supposedly a golden age in that regard.

I definitely agree on the last part - my husband writes fiction full time & doesn't earn anything like a living wage from it. At the same time, I think the problem is our economic model for sustaining and recompensing writers, which hasn't ever really worked tbh.

moreover, fiction publishing is just as fucked as a model as music publishing, if not quite as fucked as academic publishing. And just like with music, there are a lot of artists out there whose publishers are telling them piracy is why they're not getting paid, and it's just as untrue.

ehhh I disagree actually! firstly, I don't think anna's archives requires a subscription; in fact, it's one of the sites libgen searches. secondly, I disagree that ebook sharing undermines fiction writers - like all piracy, it usually has the net result of causing people to buy the same amt or more.