Humanity has evolved by going beyond of the way things are. Today I comment on two pieces on the New York Times (Thanks Lincoln, for the free subscription).
One is about Muhammad Yunus, the people's banker, [link], the other is about Larry Page of Google, [link].
Both men have been sued by other interests, Yunus by his government of Bangladesh, and Page by his. Grameen, is bank for poor people (Yunus), Google (Page) wants to digitized ALL books. Copyright is the issue the American judge used to stop this enterprise, which I will call the library for poor people.
If we lived in a Utopian society there is no issue for either men. We do not, the way things are, dictate that moneyed people, get to profit from books and money.
Oh well.
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