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Dear Ms. Reader (Blast from the Past: June 2016)

So 2016 isn’t that long in the past, but while reviewing my blog archive, I came across this gem and knew I just had to share it this week, especially with all the flak that capitalism has been getting from a certain former bartender recently. Enjoy!

Dear Ms. Author.

I really like your books. I think they are well-written and I enjoyed reading them. (So far, so good, right? Hang on.) However, I have returned them all because you priced them at $0.99 to $2.99, and that is too much to pay for them. I can’t afford to pay that much for a book, even though I liked it. In the future, can you make sure you make all your books free so I don’t have to return them?

Dear Ms. Reader,

Thank you for reading my books. I appreciate your patronage. However, this is why my books are not free:

What have you done to serve your fellow man?

Sincerely yours,

Joe

A Native American take on cultural appropriation

Saw this on my YouTube feed, though it was interesting.

Most of the time, discussions about cultural appropriation either devolve into everyone competing to be the most outraged, either on behalf of some minority group (which they usually don’t belong to), or over all the “snowflakes” who are outraged about it, not realizing their own hypocrisy.

Will Witt has done some “owning the libs” type stuff before, but this video was surprisingly thoughtful and sincere. It made me rethink some of my own opinions, and I think you’ll find it interesting as well.

In the end, there is far more that unites us than divides us.

Dear Ms. Reader,

Dear Ms. Author.

I really like your books. I think they are well-written and I enjoyed reading them. (So far, so good, right? Hang on.) However, I have returned them all because you priced them at $0.99 to $2.99, and that is too much to pay for them. I can’t afford to pay that much for a book, even though I liked it. In the future, can you make sure you make all your books free so I don’t have to return them?

Dear Ms. Reader,

Thank you for reading my books. I appreciate your patronage. However, this is why my books are not all free:

What have you done to serve your fellow man?

Sincerely yours,

Joe