I live in a very liberal area and to be honest, our local library isn’t very good. It’s about as well curated as a Barnes and Noble “best sellers” selection. For example, on a couple of occasions I’ve gone in looking for certain books on something like a financial topic. All they have are books by like Suze Orman but no real literature on the subject. It would be great to have a nice library, but this one is a wash.
Regardless, I’m an outlier. Someone that reads non-fiction regularly. We could have the library of Alexandria over there and most people wouldn’t use it to gain knowledge. So as unpopular of an opinion as it is, public libraries don’t provide the value to the community that they are made out to. It would be awesome if they did because that would the community is getting smarter.
I’m not sure what our local library costs per year to maintain (labor, maintenance, utilities), but the recent renovations cost millions. I’d rather see that money go toward a college scholarship fund for underprivileged residents. I mean the renovations alone could’ve sent about 80 people through all four years of college. That’s surely a better value to the community.
Libraries in my area are open air drug camps
SChroerder was right to cut social welfare and go to Gazprom; now, everybody in country sees him as a visionary.
A lot of our libraries were built due to the capitalist Andrew Carnegie.
Then most roads are also socialist plot. The girlfriend in that tweet is a moron.
Libraries, at least in my country, came to be as part of philanthropy done be the great noblemen houses.
It’s worth a discussion. There have been private libraries for centuries so we know they don’t have to be public (Charleston, South Carolina Library Society claims it was founded in 1748). I’m sure that wasn’t the main point 9f the OP though, as obviously Andrew Carnegie wanted anyone of any means to be able to improve themselves. The participation rate of some public libraries isn’t very high in terms of the total population that is taxed to pay for them (although many will choose to pay for them so others can use them). Any public good or service should have a good public discussion about who should pay for them, or even if the good or service should continue to exist. I love national parks but not everyone else cares about them or wants to pay for them through taxes. I’m not sure I would call it a socialist plot.
Yes Amazon would be all wth.
Publishers would amend copyright laws to prevent it.
The hedgemony of the Rich depends on the abundance of the poor and ignorant!
Libraries, schools, social security, FEMA, noaa, and many more. A complete list is in project 2025
Marx did, in fact, promote public education at a time when education was reserved for the wealthy
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I live in a very liberal area and to be honest, our local library isn’t very good. It’s about as well curated as a Barnes and Noble “best sellers” selection. For example, on a couple of occasions I’ve gone in looking for certain books on something like a financial topic. All they have are books by like Suze Orman but no real literature on the subject. It would be great to have a nice library, but this one is a wash.
Regardless, I’m an outlier. Someone that reads non-fiction regularly. We could have the library of Alexandria over there and most people wouldn’t use it to gain knowledge. So as unpopular of an opinion as it is, public libraries don’t provide the value to the community that they are made out to. It would be awesome if they did because that would the community is getting smarter.
I’m not sure what our local library costs per year to maintain (labor, maintenance, utilities), but the recent renovations cost millions. I’d rather see that money go toward a college scholarship fund for underprivileged residents. I mean the renovations alone could’ve sent about 80 people through all four years of college. That’s surely a better value to the community.
Libraries in my area are open air drug camps
SChroerder was right to cut social welfare and go to Gazprom; now, everybody in country sees him as a visionary.
A lot of our libraries were built due to the capitalist Andrew Carnegie.
Then most roads are also socialist plot.
The girlfriend in that tweet is a moron.
Libraries, at least in my country, came to be as part of philanthropy done be the great noblemen houses.
It’s worth a discussion. There have been private libraries for centuries so we know they don’t have to be public (Charleston, South Carolina Library Society claims it was founded in 1748). I’m sure that wasn’t the main point 9f the OP though, as obviously Andrew Carnegie wanted anyone of any means to be able to improve themselves. The participation rate of some public libraries isn’t very high in terms of the total population that is taxed to pay for them (although many will choose to pay for them so others can use them). Any public good or service should have a good public discussion about who should pay for them, or even if the good or service should continue to exist. I love national parks but not everyone else cares about them or wants to pay for them through taxes. I’m not sure I would call it a socialist plot.
Yes Amazon would be all wth.
Publishers would amend copyright laws to prevent it.
The hedgemony of the Rich depends on the abundance of the poor and ignorant!
Libraries, schools, social security, FEMA, noaa, and many more. A complete list is in project 2025
Marx did, in fact, promote public education at a time when education was reserved for the wealthy
[Well, you know..](https://www.theregister.com/2000/07/31/ms_ballmer_linux_is_communism/)
Do people go around destroying little libraries?
In some way people still try to argue that.
They would have burnt all books but the Bible long ago. I feel like we could be heading that way still.
Libraries shouldn’t need to turn a profit to justify their existence. Neither should the Post Office.
if by ‘my girlfriend’ you mean ‘reddit’ then you’re probably right
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