here is the full the subject for context: https://imgur.com/a/IkrR3Xo
You have to choose one of 2 exam papers. Would you choose the second subject ? the one revolving around piracy denial that is.

  • enkers@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    5 months ago

    Here’s my mildly diplomatic answer that’d probably get tossed:

    Piracy has become a plague on our society, but there’s a more sinister cause to it. The average labourer can hardly afford to pay the same fee to access culture that the wealthy person can, and this has caused a significant and justified uptick in piracy.

    This situation can be averted by increasing minimum wages and supporting universal basic income. If everyone knew they could at least make ends meet, they’d have some left over to pay for the culture that mattered to them.

    • Maeve@kbin.earth
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      5 months ago

      It would be easier to pass by 'what had been argued as" qualifier in front of “justified.” I’d also add something about people who discriminate against different socioeconomic groups as being uncultured, while gatekeeping culture.

    • GravitySpoiled@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      5 months ago

      It’s not only price. I don’t agree that spotify has the right to a monopoly in music sales. Neither shall youtube have it for videos or adobe for image editing.

      There is a market imbalance and the only protest that’s left for me is to pirate content.

      • best_username_ever@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        5 months ago

        I would ask how it is theft when I’m prevented from buying media from other countries. I can’t buy Romanian movies or Swedish books. It’s illegal for me to give them money. Where is the theft here?

      • enkers@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        5 months ago

        Haha, yeah, that’s why I said it’s my diplomatic answer, as it doesn’t utterly reject a capitalist framework.

        • GravitySpoiled@lemmy.mlEnglish
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          5 months ago

          Neither does my statement reject capitalism. I reject the monopolies. There is not really a competitive market. It may or should be a natural monopoly but there are means to produce competitive markets but they are not yet implemented.

          Capitalism does not exclusively mean monopolies. Recap: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalism

          Capitalism is an economic system based on the private ownership of the means of production and their operation for profit.[1][2][3][4][5] Central characteristics of capitalism include capital accumulation, competitive markets, price systems, private property, property rights recognition, economic freedom, profit motive, entrepreneurship, commodification, voluntary exchange, wage labor and the production of commodities.[6][7][8][9] In a market economy, decision-making and investments are determined by owners of wealth, property, or ability to maneuver capital or production ability in capital and financial markets—whereas prices and the distribution of goods and services are mainly determined by competition in goods and services markets.