That analogy is so stupid as to be utterly meaningless. It is not an individual reader's job to pay the author a "fair" wage--I work at a museum, and I'm sure that a mere fraction of a cent from every visitor's entrance goes towards my wages. Does that mean I am TRAGICALLY UNDERPAID? Does that mean that actually, each visitor should pay $15,000 to get in instead of $8? $30,000? $100,000 (that's what our CEO makes)? Otherwise they clearly don't value employee time, right?
Sheesh.
Since I don't get paid enough to buy full-price new books, I guess I shall continue being a book-hating plebe who uses the library for free and steals money from authors. Or something. (I guess I could not read at all! Even less of my money would go to authors that way.)
If an analogy falls apart that badly, it doesn't provide any damn "perspective."
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Sheesh.
Since I don't get paid enough to buy full-price new books, I guess I shall continue being a book-hating plebe who uses the library for free and steals money from authors. Or something. (I guess I could not read at all! Even less of my money would go to authors that way.)
If an analogy falls apart that badly, it doesn't provide any damn "perspective."