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A photocopier provides "vastly greater value" than the people who wrote the books?

> they can't extract rent now that their past work became valuable for reasons they had no part in.

That is not the case at all. If I donate food to Africa, I'm happy if it goes to humans. I'm not happy if a Mafia organization steals the food in transit, repackages it and sells it.



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