Libraries are theft. A person reads a book and the same book is given to another person! Libraries, on average steal [arbitrary number] from publishers.
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"rent CD"
You mean... "borrow"? "Rent" implies payment.
Also. Who the fuck is borrowing CD's, what is this, 1999?
Physical media is coming back because owning is better than licensing.
I'll believe it when I see it.
Walk into any music store. Or bookstore. Or a Half Price Books, which sells both. People are sick of paying for the capricious hands of streaming to tell them what they're allowed to watch or read or listen to on any given day.
Walk into a specialised sex-store for a very specific fetish, and you'll see lots of people with that very specific fetish.
I don't think that would mean that the fetish is taking over society.
Yes, I know that some people value physical media. But most don't. Most people value convenience. That's what enables enshittification. If everyone was actually as sensitive to corporate bullshit as the people who you're talking about, corporate bullshit wouldn't survive.
Most people are idiots. What can you do?
I know that some people value physical media. But most don't. Most people value convenience.
I'm not talking about "everyone in the world," I'm talking about "more people than ten years ago."
I recognize that the internet is allergic to context and nuance, but seriously.
'makes government fund them more' .. 'rent cds and games and movies'
(So, they're socialist BS that destroyed legit rental businesses with taxpayer money.)
Those rental businesses went out of business well before libraries were generally offering non-book media rentals...
Ah yes! It was libraries that killed my good ol’ hometown Blockbuster Video. It certainly could not have been market forces reacting to technological innovation to birth a multitude of subscription rental businesses available through increasingly faster internet connections.
Curse you libraries! You killed all the bookstores. And record shops too! Is there no end to your socialist devilry‽ Everyday I 🙏 thank the gods 🙏 that we haven’t socialized education. Such a thing would destroy the livelihoods of the great tutors who personally taught each and every one of us our letters and numbers.
I refuse to believe that this is not a really weak troll.
Honestly that might describe their whole account.
I hope so, but it's such a lame one. Just incoherent. Maybe someone prompted an AI to post troll comments, and it's just doin' its best.