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radley-writes · 15 days

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Cannot believe that 'access to quality art and writing made by other people is a luxury not a right, and artists and writers deserve to be compensated for their labour, because as much as I believe in the ethos of UBI, we live in a post-capitalist hellscape, and creators need to eat' is a controversial opinion in Leftist spaces.

#'if you are consuming the product of someone's labour you should compensate them fairly for it for as long as we live in this shitty #capitalist world' should not be a polarising stance #but apparently the leftist praxis leaves people's brains when you remind them that artists and creatives also need money and food #and that idealism does not pay the bills #anyway. I am anti-pirating from indie creators (which. authors are.) AND anti-AI. until we have good UBI. Then you can go nuts #but until that day saying 'it's okay to steal wages from creatives' is really not a great leftie look lmao #We Live In A Shitty Capitalist Society and the way to combat that is. surprisingly. not to take other people's livelihoods.#work towards UBI. We should all be doing this. But in the meantime don't shit on fellow poor people scraping a survival #it's really that simple

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