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it's like a business owner saying 'money to the employees' instead of paying them (i.imgur.com)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I would rather you give nothing at all

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Except they don't say who the author is. If you want to help the author spread their work, saying who it is would help people find their work. Providing a link to the original would be the next step beyond. So it is like keeping the money as a business owner, but saying that it's all thanks to your wonderful employees. Or throwing them a pizza party for the record breaking profits they made that year.

You see this a lot with reposted art. A repost on a Twitter account that does nothing but repost art? 10k likes, no mention of who the original artist is. The original piece on the artist's Twitter account? 127 likes.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I agree that it's bad. .just not that it is worse than nothing.