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Comment on Pluralistic: "If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing"

veniasilente@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

From the investors who are paying the cheques of course. They are corporations, they can afford to spend some coins on [checks notes] living wages.

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helenslunch@feddit.nl ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
That’s exactly it. Investors. They are not donations. They expect a return on their investments.

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- veniasilente@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  And such “return” comes after the work, not before. So there’s no reason to condition the wages to do the work, on the potential that the work might be sold or not and to what amount of people. Now that would be air-quotes “stealing”!
  
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  - helenslunch@feddit.nl ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    
    And such “return” comes after the work
    
    And once again, where do you suppose it comes from?
    
    So there’s no reason to condition the wages to do the work, on the potential that the work might be sold or not and to what amount of people.
    
    How does one “condition wages”?
    
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