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This mindset is so strange to me. Destroying books is anathema? These are niche subjects for books that may only have a few copies in the world. This knowledge should be digitized so it can be available and shared for thousands of years.<p>Better yet, why not raise prices by 10x for these online AI orders? Then again, I suppose you don’t really run a book shop in 2026 because you want to make money.
Except we know they're going to digitize it, use that data to feed an AI, and never release it to the world.<p>Legally they can't, they would immediately land in copyright claim hell.
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For those wondering why she's wearing wool and gloves indoors - New Zealanders typically can't afford electric heating, and wear woolen clothing in doors to to make up for this, when they can't burn firewood or coal.
Often kiwis can afford it but just choose not to. My own parents are well off and yet still have an absolutely freezing house all winter, it drives me crazy. Just put on a sweater, and another one over that, and a blanket....
Lol but seriously 4th highest median wealth per capita. The median NZ citizen has 3x the wealth of the median us citizen.<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_wealth_per_adult" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_wealth_pe...</a><p>Of course they have very low wealth inequality so they don’t have trillionaires at all which some people may see as a problem. In fact remarkably despite the median wealth of NZ being so much higher than the USA they have a lower average wealth per capita.<p>They just spread the wealth around making the middle class 3x richer.
Wikipedia's (UBS') US figure ($69k) is probably wrong? US median household wealth is ~$193k[1]. I don't think there's a way to square claimed median individual wealth of $69k with that? Even taking into account children (22% population) and assuming 2 adults/household (more favorable to the math than the real 1.2-1.4 figure). I can't find anything on UBS' methodology, just the short 1.5 page paper.<p>[1]: <a href="https://www.federalreserve.gov/econres/scfindex.htm" rel="nofollow">https://www.federalreserve.gov/econres/scfindex.htm</a>
That wealthy is all tied up in draughty houses. It's not real.
More likely a second hand book store in Newtown is an old and draughty building. Running a heater in there would be the same as running one outdoors.<p>Or she just gets cold. My daughter wears those kind of gloves all winter regardless of how warm we heat the house.