On: Pirate Bay Founder: ‘I Have Given Up’ (2015)

[Dylan16807]

You're not describing cognitive dissonance. There's nothing inherently incompatible between free sharing and paid creators. It's hard, of course, but most economic issues are hard.

[johnfn → Dylan16807]

I'd argue that an irreconcilable world view - or at least one that you are not capable of reconciling - is cognitive dissonance.

If you CAN reconcile it, you don't have congnitive dissonance. But most people don't get that far.

[Dylan16807 → johnfn]

If your standard of avoiding cognitive dissonance requires being an economist, it's too high.

It's enough to have a reasonable justification to say that it can be reconciled. There's no need to force the person to do that reconciliation.

[johnfn → Dylan16807]

What I'm saying is that in some cases I do believe it to be irreconcileable.

[Dylan16807 → johnfn]

Irreconcilable even by a dictator-for-a-day? As far as I'm concerned the idea of a tax that funds content creation is a pretty good existence proof of reconciling those two ideas.