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Humans are social animals and have a need for cultural interaction. There is plenty of historical examples where groups has been denied this, like slaves being forbidden to play music, or cults that forbade children to access books, radio and TV, and the negative impact has been studied to a certain degree. I have read about lack of culture being linked with increased violence, less social abilities, lower income later in life, and (obviously) lower creativity in the arts. With that comes social isolation which has direct health impact with increased stress and other really bad symptoms.

If a person take it upon themselves to eliminate the disadvantage from being poor by accessing culture illegally, which has no harmful impact to anything or anyone physically, then I don't blame them, especially if they are a child. Its not their fault that the incentive model of culture demands that poor people must be denied access in order to force rich people to pay.




You don't have a need to watch current TV shows.

You really don't.


But you do have social needs, that for civilized humans take form of the need to participate in your local culture. Local culture, which today is heavily based on current TV shows. Thus being up to date with TV shows becomes a need.


We don't need much of anything other than some minimum amount of food, water and the ability to sleep somewhere. Roads, clothes, education, healthcare, music, etc are all optional.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow's_hierarchy_of_needs

Love/belonging includes feeling a part of society. In today world where culture is global (especially for so called millennials) consuming that culture is part of feeling that you are part of society.

And most people are very happy (and very able) to pay for that. So why not sell/rent it to them?


You don't need to travel on the bus, you can walk.

You don't need to eat with white people if you are black.

You don't need to get married if you aren't heterosexual.

You really don't.


Comparing these issues above to justify why you should be able to watch Game of Thrones for free ins't a very good argument.


Why so? Not allowing me to go to the movies because I'm an Australian would be considered racist. Why is it more acceptable to do so with streaming content?




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