c/buyeuropean · by UniversalBasicJustice@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1yA Story in Three Parts 112 points · 7 comments · view on lemmy.world
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waigl@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 1y
Somehow I doubt the trend away from reading for recreation has anything to do with the retail price of books.
UniversalBasicJustice@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 1y
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.
Shyze3D@feddit.nl · 8 pts · 1y
UniversalBasicJustice@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 1y
That makes sense, thank you for the insight! That makes Denmark's policy largely performative then?
TomArrr@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y
It probably is. It brought reading to front and centre. Good advertising.
Niquarl@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 1y
Or it's to increase profit for the book industry.
UniversalBasicJustice@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 1y
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.
az04@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y
I wish we could go back to 2003, when the US didn't go to war for regime change