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Nope people are just acting like ChatGPT is making commercial use of the content. Knowing a quote from a book isn't copyright infringement. Selling that quote is. Also it doesn't need to be content stored 1:1 somewhere to be infringement. That misses the point. If you're making money of a synopsis you wrote based on imperfect memory and in your own words it's still copyright infringment until you sign a licensing agreement with JK. Even transforming what you read into a different medium like a painting or poetry cam infinge the original authors copyrights.

Now mull that over and tell us what you think about modern copyright laws.

Vast majority of petrol is dead pine trees but a good effort

The marketing team realized that society isn't cool enough to buy enough of them to reliably profit off it.

This is how distopias happen. Hell this is how fascism sneaks up on people if they aren't paying close attention.

I wasnt disputing your margins report but that it makes for perfect competition. Why are you assuming low margins necessarily lead to better competition? With low margins, volume dictates the winning business in the unregulated marketplace. Big businesses monopolize and then one day have more leverage over their margins than the marketplace itself. Not a problem when antitrust laws are enforced but those laws have had their teeth pulled for the last 30 years.

It's a catch 22 because if you already know the seller but are opting for their Amazon vendor e-commerce channel you're undercutting their business by taking Amazon's promo discount on shipping today and forcing the seller to make up the difference in vendor fees. Then when your favorite reasonable merchants that balance price and quality get squeezed out of business by cheap knockoffs competing on the same platform in 1-5 years you'll wonder why you can't find quality products of that type anymore except from niche boutique merchants who have to charge even more to ship quality to your door than they used to.

Oh thabks for clarifying I guess since the problem hasn't happened to you in particular its not actually a problem. /s

The part that's infuriating isn't the phrase. Its a good phrase when used correctly. It's annoying that your friend is explicitly hating on your personal opinion after stating they want to respect your difference of opinion.

People have different opinions. One person's "ew" is a other person's "oooh." So never yuck someone else's yum.

Nah you're just bad at online shopping.

And you will have no recourse wheb the product you buy is (a) not what you thought you were getting, (b) going to break in a month or two or (c) set your house on fire if you leave it plugged in.

Thay was true once. It hasn't been for decades.

A singleton universe doesn't allow for multiple versions of a single moment to coexist. A closed timelike curve does, and potentially an infinite number of variations all as long as they are continuous in the same curve. It's also different from a proper many worlds theory with quantum variations. The relationship between causes and effects are mapped differently. Thus it's its own thing.