pink_silk_glove
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Lit doesn't owe us, authors, anything. I absolutely agree with that one. Your example with the playground isn't a good one, because it neglects to mention that the playground owner earns good money because of those very kids, not from them, but because of them being there. If all the kids abandoned the playground, the playground owner would go broke. It still doesn't mean that the playground owner owes anything to the kids. It does seem strange that he is not willing to communicate and hear them out from time to time. Sometimes, the kids don't ask for monkey bars or anything radical. Sometimes they just ask for a bit of a shade, or a small water faucet so they could drink some water when they get tired.
Huh, this metaphor...
Roll your eyes all you want. It's a perfect metaphor. If I get an idea to provide a free playground to the neighborhood, but then realize that my simple act of giving is going to incur debt of trees and waterfountains later on, then why the hell should I offer my generosity in the first place?
You say on one hand that you agree that lit owes the authors nothing. Then on the other you say that they owe us something (your literary equivalent of shade and a waterfountain, whatever that may be). You can't have both. Do they owe us something or nothing?
Furthermore, your rationale for the site owing us something is that we provide content that adds value to the site for free. Well we agreed to upload for free. All we wanted was a free place to host our work. Then after posting we change our mind and demand that we are owed something? If we feel that we are entitled to something in return beyond free hosting and traffic, like I said before, there are many many other ways to host your work and many of them are not behind paywalls. So then begs the question, why lit?