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On Sep 11, 2012, at 10:46 PM, C W Sedley <cwsedley at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 1:26 PM, andie_nachgeborenen
> <andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> to submit absolutely to the values of capital, which seems to be your and cg's idea.
>
> I think you might have confused me with another person (unless this
> other person is emailing you offlist). If that's the case, just to
> clarify, I'm not proposing we sit back and accept that technological
> change means writers must never get paid. Capitalist production
> constantly makes people unemployed or unemployable. It reduces the
> amount of direct labour necessary to produce social wealth, but
> instead of manifesting as an increase in leisure, it manifests as a
> social crisis. You can neither hold back the tide (as publishers want
> to, by endlessly extending copyright terms and infecting everything
> with DRM), nor solve it on an individual level (as Ebookcollective
> implicitly think you can).
>
> Writers, like teachers, must be paid, as long as money exists. But,
> like teachers and nurses, they need not be paid by their customers. I
> think this has always been basically the leftist approach to cultural
> production; the fact that culture can now be reproduced infinitely for
> free has forced the issue within capitalism.
>
> Cheers
>
> CWS
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