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minus-squaredaniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·4 months agoWe live in a system that actively prevents humans to get more knowledge, go figure.
minus-squareRememberTheApollo_@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·4 months agoWe live in a system that monetizes everything, then seeks to restrict access to those things in order to profit. Knowledge is just one casualty.
minus-squareAceticon@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·4 months agoScarcity is money and if there is no scarcity laws will be bought to to artificially create said scarcity.
minus-squareZacryon@lemmy.wtflinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·4 months agoNo one is preventing you from visiting a library, which would be a fesible alternative. However, not a simple solution for everyone in every country. Knowlegde should be a free and shared common good.
minus-square01011@monero.townlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-24 months agoThat depends on where you live. The Internet Archive is far more accessible than a good library, for much of the global populace.
minus-squaresugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·4 months agoAnd my library doesn’t have every book I want to read.
minus-squareZacryon@lemmy.wtflinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 months ago That depends on where you live. Yes, I know. That’s why I said: However, not a simple solution for everyone in every country.
minus-squarekent_eh@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·4 months agoIt’s not even limited by country. There are far too many places in well resourced countries that don’t have access to good (or any) libraries.
minus-squareKillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·4 months ago No one is preventing you from visiting a library, which would be a fesible alternative. actually blatantly wrong, public libraries are slowly dying and losing funding.
minus-squareDisaster@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 months agoWell, except scumbags like eric adams, NYC’s bought-owned-and-operated-by-real-estate-interests mayor.
minus-squareAngryCommieKender@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 months agoHe’s also a corrupt cop, but I repeat myself.
minus-squaredaniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·4 months agoLibraries where good for before the XXI century. Nowadays the amount of content they had is pretty small. Most libraries don’t really has anything but the more famous books.
minus-squareAkrenion@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 months agoThey became community hubs that offer more than just books. Even ebooks albeit that being weirdly capped by publishers as well. They do much more than public opinion would make you believe.
We live in a system that actively prevents humans to get more knowledge, go figure.
We live in a system that monetizes everything, then seeks to restrict access to those things in order to profit.
Knowledge is just one casualty.
Scarcity is money and if there is no scarcity laws will be bought to to artificially create said scarcity.
No one is preventing you from visiting a library, which would be a fesible alternative.
However, not a simple solution for everyone in every country. Knowlegde should be a free and shared common good.
That depends on where you live. The Internet Archive is far more accessible than a good library, for much of the global populace.
And my library doesn’t have every book I want to read.
Yes, I know. That’s why I said:
It’s not even limited by country. There are far too many places in well resourced countries that don’t have access to good (or any) libraries.
actually blatantly wrong, public libraries are slowly dying and losing funding.
Well, except scumbags like eric adams, NYC’s bought-owned-and-operated-by-real-estate-interests mayor.
He’s also a corrupt cop, but I repeat myself.
Libraries where good for before the XXI century. Nowadays the amount of content they had is pretty small. Most libraries don’t really has anything but the more famous books.
They became community hubs that offer more than just books. Even ebooks albeit that being weirdly capped by publishers as well.
They do much more than public opinion would make you believe.