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Pluralistic: "If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing"
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That's exactly it. Investors. They are not donations. They expect a return on their investments.
And such "return" comes after the work, not before. So there's no reason to condition the wages to do the work, on the potential that the work might be sold or not and to what amount of people. Now that would be air-quotes "stealing"!
And once again, where do you suppose it comes from?
How does one "condition wages"?
Is your argument simply that theft is a-ok ๐ when the person you're stealing from is wealthy?