This is really unfortunate. Its a shame that part of the cultural lexicon is that Free is some sort of freedom. how personal responsibility and supporting the community of these businesses has gone away in favor of self interest. people download music and movies for free because they assume there are enough people who don't so their "theft" will affect little. Many even justify that they would have never bought the album in the firstplace.. yet they listen to it. And look at where we are now.
The irony is that companies have taken the same attitude towards people: they assume there are other companies paying people well so that they can drop wages and benefits and some other business will pick up the slack. As a result, you have an consumer base that earns so little that they can't afford to buy anything. So now you don;t have jobs and look at the economy.
When Ford built the model T and pioneer the assembly line, he paid his people 3x as much as other workers because he needed people to buy his cars. You don't have that cycle today...
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