No distribution costs, no retailers and middlemen taking their cut, no second
hand market diverting funds away from the publisher's hands.
The task of rhetoric is to
divert attention from the fact that the financial sector aims not to «free»
markets, but to place control in the
hands of financial managers — whose logic is to subject economies to austerity and even depression, sell off public land and enterprises, suffer emigration and reduce living standards in the face of a sharply increasing concentration of wealth at the top of the economic pyramid.