Like i just pay for this on my computer once and then i get mailed a little glossy full colour A4 booklet with loads of interviews and articles and opinion pieces all about my interests in it once a month for the next year? I get to leaf through it while drinking coffee in the morning and then put it down after reading a few articles and they’re all written by professional writers not just substack cranks?
I haven’t gotten magazines regularly since i was a kid and that was just like the Beano’s swansong in the few years before it finally went bankrupt and stopped distribution, so this is all a big novelty to me. Please forgive my wide-eyed zoomer naïvety about this all, but i don’t get how millenials were ever persuaded to give this up for web articles.
(I also got a free tote bag included with my subscription!!! I didn’t even know they did that, they just mailed me a bag along with my magazine one day!)
Barnes and Noble has shredder trucks that come by to obliterate any out of date magazines so that no one can read them. At least they did back in '23. Lifting them is objectively the moral thing to do.
Stealing from corporations is always moral.