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Article #1228Re: support for the arts in the US
From: Nigel Ling
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 14:42
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 14:42
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In article <1gdaaqINN1kg@agate.berkeley.edu> curtis@cs.berkeley.edu (Curtis Yarvin) writes: > >>Are you therefore also against public funding of >>libraries, because of the power librarians are given >>over selection of titles? > >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. 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. Nigel
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Newsgroups: misc.writing Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!pipex!warwick!doc.ic.ac.uk!syma!mapd1 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 Lines: 23