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Shrinkwrapped Books

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the shrinkwrapped-lamps dept.

NortWind writes "I just saw this in the InfoWorld paper, in the "The Gripe Line" by Ed Foster. It describes how a "...book arrived wrapped in plastic with a shrinkwrap license on the front". Just when you thought it couldn't get any worse..." I wrote an essay about this a year or two ago.

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  1. Re:Great, there goes more of our freedom by paladin_tom · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    The problem with this is that govenments tend to, at least, unofficially, side with big business. Why?

    • Business -> economy -> more jobs & tax revenue
    • Businesses contribute a lot of money to politicians' campaigns
    • Businesses fund lobby groups to influence politicians
    • Many politicians, especially in the US, are very right-wing, and support business on principle
    • Many politicians are businessmen (ie. Cheney)
    • Other reasons I haven't thought of...

    What you guys need in the US is a mainstream centre-left socialist party, such as the NDP we have here in Canada, that is sympathetic to individual rights, and suspicious of the motives of big business.

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