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- From: mapd1@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Nigel Ling)
- Subject: Re: support for the arts in the US
- Message-ID: <1992Dec14.144232.21162@syma.sussex.ac.uk>
- Organization: University of Sussex
- References: <1gbj0kINNnkj@agate.berkeley.edu> <tg9dhtk@zola.esd.sgi.com> <1gdaaqINN1kg@agate.berkeley.edu>
- Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 14:42:32 GMT
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- In article <1gdaaqINN1kg@agate.berkeley.edu> curtis@cs.berkeley.edu (Curtis Yarvin) writes:
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- >>Are you therefore also against public funding of
- >>libraries, because of the power librarians are given
- >>over selection of titles?
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- >No; library sales don't have much effect on book profits. I'm
- >unhappy about public funding of libraries for two reasons: that
- >libraries are not a public good, and that public libraries make
- >it impossible for private libraries to exist.
- >
- >If you want poor people to be able to read, you should give
- >them money - not libraries.
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- Heaven help us! Well, I may say this for you: you're probably in
- tune with a few government officials these days, but not, I hope,
- the majority of people.
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- Nigel
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