A picture of three consecutive articles posted to various Lemmy communities. 
The first article, posted to feddit.uk's BuyEuropean community, describes Denmark's plan to abolish VAT (value-added tax) on books to promote reading.
The second article, posted to Lemmy.world's News community, discusses a 20-year study's findings of a 40% drop in reading for pleasure amongst Americans.
The third article, posted Lemmy.world's World News community, describes the deployment of United States warships to Venezuela; an action that some people fear marks an escalation of the United States' threatening of Venezuelan sovereignity.
The juxtaposition of Denmark's willingness to forgo taxes to encourage reading while the United States spends tens of millions (if not hundreds) of dollars on warmongering leads this poster further down the path of radicalization.

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[โ€“] 8 points 1 year ago

Social media took up the place in my life for most of my reading, that has since changed since finding a Library app for books and, of course, the nazification of most platforms

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  • [โ€“] 8 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Somehow I doubt the trend away from reading for recreation has anything to do with the retail price of books.

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  • [โ€“] [S] 4 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    I'd tend to agree but every little bit helps.

    Also consider the effect of redirecting fractions of the cost to deploy warships and effective regime change of a sovereign country towards the funding of libraries.

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  • [โ€“] [S] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    That makes sense, thank you for the insight! That makes Denmark's policy largely performative then?

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  • [โ€“] 4 points 1 year ago

    I wish we could go back to 2003, when the US didn't go to war for regime change

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