[deepersprout]

> From the moment the driver hit the gas pedal, everybody was on their phones. From the back row, I watched my friends scroll their social media feeds with ferocious intensity.

Sorry, but I think you should change friends. Or your friends have a serious problem with social media that you should help them overcome. There are tons of other interesting venues on the internet. This is one of them. And here you have articles from the past, as from the present. No need to live in The Never Ending Now.

[holmesworcester]

But this site is still biased towards the present, and towards short-form takes like this very piece.

One thing that has always seemed significant to me is that copyright, by intending to subsidize the creation of long-form work, has also put a huge tax on the consumption of long-form work, one that's almost infinite relative to the marginal cost of distribution.

With an near-infinite tax on reading books, is it any wonder most people don't read books?

[MattPalmer1086]

I don't understand the points you are making. Could you clarify:

> copyright, by intending to subsidize the creation

I'm not sure what you mean by subsidize. Do you really mean incentivize?

> of long-form work

What does the length of work have to do with it? Copyright doesn't really have a size limit.

> has also put a huge tax on the consumption of long-form work

What do you mean by tax? That some creators want to be paid for their work?