karenhealey:gandalfergrigio:karenhealey:gandalfergrigio:maggie-stiefvater:Folks, this is why the box
karenhealey:gandalfergrigio:karenhealey:gandalfergrigio:maggie-stiefvater:Folks, this is why the box set of the Raven Cycle was canceled.Maggie, I love you, I love your stories and I completely agree with you BUTI believe that excluding people from art because of financial issues is the same as not allowing access to education. Money shouldn’t be something to keep one from reading and mind that libraries don’t offer the same books worldwide. Maybe these books are accessible in the US or in the UK but it’s improbable that non anglophone countries will have that book. Artist do what they do (I hope) for the pleasure of producing art, money should be a background. I completely agree on the point that artists deserve to get an income from a work they’ve probably lost half a life on but basing an artwork on money is just… terrible to hear? Shouldn’t art trade in sensations and emotions and education? Yes, if you have the money to buy books but decide to pirate them, then you have no excuses and are taking advantage of a person’s work. If you can’t afford books but still crave them, I don’t think you should feel bad if you pirate them. Access to art shouldn’t be a privilege and I really don’t feel like suggesting someone not to read a book because they don’t have the money for it. If this was about anything else, I would agree 110% but when it concerns art I think we should be more elastic on judging someone and pointing fingers at people who don’t have the money to pay for books. “I believe that excluding people from art because of financial issues is the same as not allowing access to education.”Well, here’s the thing.I haven’t had a book come out since 2014 because my regular job is as a high school English teacher, and that takes a lot of time and energy and attention. I work in the public high school system. I get paid by the Ministry of Education. I love my job. I take pleasure in it. I definitely enable people to access education. If the school said, “Karen, we love your work, it’s great, but our funding has been cut and we just can’t afford to pay your salary,” should I keep turning up and doing the job anyway? After all, if I really loved teaching, if I really cared about educating kids, I’d still be prepared to do all the planning and teaching and marking without any compensation in the form of filthy money, right?Come on. I want to teach people. I want to write books. I need to pay my rent. If I couldn’t do it with either of those, I’d have to find work elsewhere. I love both those jobs, and I wouldn’t do either if I didn’t, but I can’t live on love.I agree! As I stated before I completely understand and I think it’s fair, it’s right and it’s A right to get paid for your work. But since you are a teacher (I don’t know where you’re from and how education works in your countries so let’s just make a general example), if one of your students one day stopped coming because he/she doesn’t have tenmoney to pay for book stuff, or for the school fee (if school isn’t paid by the State in your country), would you really have the heart to just say “k I’m sorry, bye”? Let’s pretend that you get paid for every child you teach to. Would you let one go because he/she can’t pay or would you say “okay I’ll do it for free”? Now, this is not psychology and I don’t want to play psychologist and I respect your opinion on the matter and completely support it (with limits) but I think this is an issue that just can’t be ignored. As I fully endorse paying for someone’s work, I have to support ALSO the category of people who can’t afford a service but it’s still unfair for them not to access it. I don’t intend to be polemic, I’m just trying to highlight the issues that come with BOTH parties Okay, try this. Public school is paid for by the state in my country, precisely so that all students can be given free access to education, even if they cannot afford it (mostly free access. There’s a stupid thing with “optional” school fees I won’t go into.) I don’t get paid per kid for teaching.I *do* get paid per kid for private, one-on-one tutoring creative writing sessions. Kids benefit from those sessions. If they don’t pay me, I don’t teach them.A universal system is not the same as a specific service.Are you entitled to access to books? Absolutely. That’s one of the reasons public libraries are a huge public good; that’s one of the reasons Project Gutenberg exists. Are you entitled to specific works by specific authors, because you crave them? No, I don’t think you are. -- source link