The irony is not lost on me that the Internet Archive went out of its way to acquire the physical versions of millions of books and loan them out carefully and in a limited way, and is facing a near-extinction-level event over it, while for-profit and VC-backed companies are just stealing people’s content and making up excuses to validate the bad behavior.
@ernie If something is done with the intention of making things better for everyone, it's a crime. If something is done to make a profit, despite damaging everyone, it's considered virtuous.

@lmgenealogy @ernie

I really dislike that this seems very accurate.

@cainmark @ernie Me too, and I hate it that it seems to be so impossible to overcome it.

@lmgenealogy @ernie

Especially when jobs that help people pay so little or demand all of the time.