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Pluralistic: "If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing"
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From the investors who are paying the cheques of course. They are corporations, they can afford to spend some coins on [checks notes] living wages.
And such "return" comes after the work, not before. So there's no reason to condition the wages to do the work, on the potential that the work might be sold or not and to what amount of people. Now that would be air-quotes "stealing"!