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wwaigl lemmy.world6Hide 6 repliesSomehow I doubt the trend away from reading for recreation has anything to do with the retail price of books.9
UniversalBasicJustice replylemmy.dbzer0.com5Hide 5 repliesI'd tend to agree but every little bit helps. Also consider the effect of redirecting fractions of the cost to deploy warships and effective regime change of a sovereign country towards the funding of libraries.4
UniversalBasicJustice replylemmy.dbzer0.com3Hide 3 repliesThat makes sense, thank you for the insight! That makes Denmark's policy largely performative then?3
UniversalBasicJustice replylemmy.dbzer0.comAs long as we're stuck with the current socioeconomic system I'd rather see trash-ass publishing companies get that money than the defense industry.1
Somehow I doubt the trend away from reading for recreation has anything to do with the retail price of books.
I'd tend to agree but every little bit helps.
Also consider the effect of redirecting fractions of the cost to deploy warships and effective regime change of a sovereign country towards the funding of libraries.
That makes sense, thank you for the insight! That makes Denmark's policy largely performative then?
It probably is. It brought reading to front and centre. Good advertising.
Or it's to increase profit for the book industry.
As long as we're stuck with the current socioeconomic system I'd rather see trash-ass publishing companies get that money than the defense industry.
I wish we could go back to 2003, when the US didn't go to war for regime change