I have about 400 offers to buy illegal copies of my own work. Something is very wrong.
"Maybe, though, it’s too narrow to focus on the way our society has
discounted its authors. No doubt musicians, and local retailers, and
hometown newspapers, and schoolteachers, and factory workers all feel
discounted in much the same way. We have surrendered our lives to
technocrat billionaires who once upon a time set out to do no harm and
have instead ended up destroying the world as we knew it. Convenience
and the lowest possible price, or no price at all, have become our
defining values. We have severed ourselves from our communities and from
the mutual give-and-take that was once our ordinary daily life. Now we
sit alone in our rooms, restlessly scrolling for something free to read."
