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in reply to Roma

Bravo. Great post! 100% agree. And to make matters worse we talk about digital stuff. Small in size. We can replicate and host these so fast and everywhere. It is a messed up society, because of trade. Nonsense, useless. We should do better than this.

#TradeRuinsEverything
in reply to Tio

Thanks man! Absolutely! In the digital world of the total abundance of the stuff, to create a horrible artificial scarcity should be considered indespicable by truly civilized society. And yet here we are.. we definetely should do better than this.
in reply to Roma

@Roma @Tio
The thing I hate most about our trade based society is how it gives zero fuck about people and their well being. An artist should be able to survive and live a good life, not because their art sells good, but because they're a human being like you and me. Our trade based society forces us to sell stuff in order to survive, if your art doesn't sell or if you don't want to sell it, then your needs are ignored. We're in 2023 and people are still left alone to fend for themselves, when are we gonna grow up and act like an intelligent species? to help our fellow brothers and sisters so that they can live a happy healthy life in this planet, instead of forcing them to sell more shit.

#TradeRuinsEverything
@Tio
in reply to Lorraine Lee

First time I hear that word. I cannot find any wiki article about it and to be sure I don't read some random website that has a weird interpretation of it, where can I find more about it?
in reply to Tio

I made a subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/anagorism/

And a blog: https://astoundingteam.com/wordpress/
in reply to Roma

in reply to Dima

The young think they can beat the #LongTail distribution, in which the median income for creatives is definitely 0, bless their sweet innocent souls. I for one choose denying myself entertainment (and in the process, I suppose, denying someone an audience) over spending discretionary $ I don't have. Rightly or wrongly, I treat it as a lesser evil than #piracy, but there are no good answers. "Intellectual" "property" is a hostage situation. Like food aid to a famine region, the local warlords have to be paid off. Or like in the ancient TV show “LA Law,” some young associate got into law because of its potential to help people, but are alarmed about the amount of billable business they have to drum up to be afforded the privilege of a little pro bono work. Whatever pro-social things are instituted are set up as negative sum games; the house always wins.
in reply to Lorraine Lee

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