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  2. Imagine what they would say about interstate highway system. “Who’s going to pay for it? What about all the freeloaders?”

  3. My mom is a librarian. She says that some people are starting to think that libraries are outlandish etc. particularly in suburbs near big cities that have significant non-white populations, where libraries (often one of the only places where social services, basic human comforts, and cultural life are freely available) play a huge role in the community. Library funding, at least in my region, was devastated after 2008 and never recovered, while librarians and libraries were transitioning to play a big role in the digital age, with free use computers, e-readers, audiobooks etc.

    Austerity has, either accidentally or intentionally, hamstrung libraries and prevented them from expanding services to keep up with the needs of the people.

  4. Terry Deary, author of the Horrible Histories series of books (which I give a lot of credit for getting me interested in history as a child and fuelling my passion for learning about the past) said:

    >We’ve got this idea that we’ve got an entitlement to read books for free, at the expense of authors, publishers and council tax payers

    He goes on to say that because people don’t buy his books and get them from libraries instead, he can’t earn the money he wants to.

    >If I sold the book I’d get 30p per book. I get six grand, and I should be getting £180,000 […] The libraries are doing nothing for the book industry. They give nothing back, whereas bookshops are selling the book, and the author and the publisher get paid, which is as it should be. What other entertainment do we expect to get for free?

    When every other author I loved as a child is joining campaigns to save public libraries (which actually do so much more than just lend out books), it was a real punch in the gut to see him disregard his impact on millions of children in favour of making a couple of quid.

  5. Having grown up in a city filled to the brim with top-tier dingbats, believe me when I tell you that there are plenty of people who think libraries are a huge waste of tax dollars.

  6. I know a dude who works at a public library and thinks taxation is theft. Yet he says he would still have a job at the library after the abolishment of taxation… Because the free market would sustain the library. Let’s all laugh together.

  7. i love libraries. simply because they are one of the last places you can go to and not be expected to generate profit for anyone.

  8. Can you imagine the snide “insightful” comments coming from the right if libraries were a modern proposal instead of an established idea taken for granted?

    “Libs don’t understand books aren’t free”

  9. A lot of conservatives & libertarians *do* actually think this. Libraries and the post office are pretty frequent targets, as well as anything art/museum/public broadcast-related. Or, you know, parks/national parks, the EPA, Dept. of Ed., the FDA, NASA, childcare/housing/food assistance, student financial aid, social security, medicare/medicaid, etc. Basically everything that’s not military or police is dubbed a “wasteful commie liberal tax theft conspiracy that the private sector could do better”. None of these things are safe no matter how well-established, popular, or innocuous they are. All of these departments, programs & ideas are being revisited and there is definitely a long-term conservative agenda to burn them down.

  10. I never understand the logic behind things like this. People call universal healthcare, socialism. So what the hell do they call the public school system?

  13. Here’s one: weekends.

    Imagine the outrage of suggesting weekends, if they didn’t exist.

  15. The number of people I assist on a daily basis with basic digital literacy (such as how to click a mouse) is truly astounding. I never realized my status in the digital realm as “elite” until I began working with the public at the library. Many people are stuck on the other side of what we call the Digital Divide. You might assume this has to do with age. In my work, it has proven otherwise. Some of my oldest patrons are the most capable users. Sometimes a 40 year old is the hardest person to help. I help people get jobs. I help them create flyers for lost animals. Print, send emails, scan. Help them navigate websites because they don’t understand digital space…Librarians are like no one else. I sometimes call my floor “adult daycare” because it truly reminds me of that.

  16. The car park by my local library just got bought up by a parking company and is no longer free. If the library doesn’t charge, Capitalism will find another way to exploit you.

  17. Don’t libraries have books in ’em? Nobody needs books, they just make you think instead of learning a decent trade.

    Burn’ em! /s

  18. It’s true. The proposal would start out as a “Single Payer Book System”, get negotiated down to a “Public Book Option”, and then negotiated again down to an “Individual Mandate” to buy books, which would later get repealed.

    And they’d throw in a provision that prohibited universities negotiating down the price of textbooks.

  19. I’m a social worker employed at a library, and i can happily say we don’t get too many people complaining about the fact that we’re open to everyone. My district serves urban and rural areas, and we’ve found that every community we are in supports this initiative. I’ve only had one person complain about my position after they find out what I actually do, which was a major surprise.

    Libraries rock and everyone should try to go to their local branch(es) more often!

  20. And no one would care that Benjamin Franklin thought of them / started them in Philadelphia.

  21. Explains why the Conservative UK government have been shutting libraries down and slashing their budgets for years

  22. And by people, we mean the ones who already think access to decent education is overrated. You know, the types a certain party counts on since their continued existence requires that society be either unquestioning and rabidly biased or distracted.

  23. Yglasias is the weirdest journalist on the left. He is hard yimby and kinda a center left guy but dabbles socialism. Everyone kinda hates him.

  24. Why does even the mention of sharing something have to be seen as “socialism” and freeloaders in the US. So much for a sense of community

  27. I like to think before too long Big Daddy Jeff will declare his war on public libraries and they’ll all just be replaced by Amazon in person stores. And we’ll all be so appreciate now that we wouldn’t be burdened by checking out used books and could instead be rewarded by buying greedy publisher gouged new books.

  28. You’d get people saying ‘this millennial idea will destroy the publishing industry and harm authors just trying to get by’

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