Look, I’ve made it a practice to not care about individuals pirating my books, and to make my books available DRM free everywhere possible, for a lot of reasons, including my not actually caring and also not having any executive function.
Capitalism is not the exchange of goods and services for money. It is allowing the accumulation of wealth in the hands of the few, meaning that the labor of an individual makes money primarily for a person who sits on their ass.
If you are going to pirate books, nobody can really stop you. We all know this.
But don’t tell an author that it’s okay to pirate books because you don’t think they’ll be able to earn an income after that, and that’s good, it ends capitalism.
Taking the position that authors shouldn’t get paid is just about the best way to get people to support draconian copyright policies.
It’s so wildly counterproductive!
One of the reasons I don’t spend time caring about piracy, and why I try to make sure my books are DRM free where possible, is that I believe most people in this world will throw a few dollars to an author in return for something that makes them happy if they have the capacity to do so.
My version of revolution looks like the cleveland botanical garden but with vegetables being everywhere. 😆
But that uhh.. that'll never happen so long as food is seen as a controlled luxury. 😕
It would require very significant restructuring of land zoning, land ownership, and yeah... it's too complicated of a matter to really think of it as feasible but...
I can dream that community gardens could be large enough to break through the survival minimums.
Personally, I think that trying to break through the survival minimums should not be the goal; the goal is to increase local food resilience. We add variety to survival stores when shit goes bonkers here; we get enough to send elsewhere when shit goes bonkers elsewhere.
eeh I've had this discussion before and the problem with community gardening as much more than an amenity is that it just does not scale well at *all* on a purely caloric level.
and in most places you're much, much better off using that land for additional housing to curb loss of productive farmland to sprawl. Especially if the soil is heavily contaminated, often the case in relatively dense areas.
