Easy game by Andrew Seidman
08-28-2016
, 02:57 AM
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Im really shocked at how many of you are justifying this price. It is an amazing poker book filled with rich and subtle concepts that are nonetheless explained concisely... That's beside the point. The only reason it costs so much is because the author and/or publishers wanted to make more money.
As a commodity, it certainly doesn't embody any more use-value then any other poker book, or book for that matter. That's why almost all books are around the same price. Literature and trashy romance novels. Shakespear and Steven King and Martha Steward. Hardcover is more pricey then paperbacks. Why? Because hard covers are more expensive to make, the materials have greater exchange value. Albums cost more then other albums if they're longer, not better. It's impossible to quantify the book's value in that way. Yeah, you could say it'll raise your ev x amount in ssnl, but it won't. You will, utilizing all the information ypu've accumulated everywhere. It's free to browse two plus two, and you can't say the the combined labor put into making these forums informative is any different.
A book is a book. Charging any more for it then any more book is just greedy.
As a commodity, it certainly doesn't embody any more use-value then any other poker book, or book for that matter. That's why almost all books are around the same price. Literature and trashy romance novels. Shakespear and Steven King and Martha Steward. Hardcover is more pricey then paperbacks. Why? Because hard covers are more expensive to make, the materials have greater exchange value. Albums cost more then other albums if they're longer, not better. It's impossible to quantify the book's value in that way. Yeah, you could say it'll raise your ev x amount in ssnl, but it won't. You will, utilizing all the information ypu've accumulated everywhere. It's free to browse two plus two, and you can't say the the combined labor put into making these forums informative is any different.
A book is a book. Charging any more for it then any more book is just greedy.
Compare reading just 2+2 to reading Easy Game and 2+2 over a given period of time. Let X be your increased earnings over the rest of your poker career after reading 2+2, and Y for Easy Game with 2+2. If (Y-cost of book)>X, you should buy the book (ignoring time preference). It doesn't matter what the purchase price is, as long as it's less than Y-X. The labour that went into each has absolutely no relevance. As poker players I would've expected looking for the greatest +EV spot, as opposed to just anything +EV, would be the default thought process.
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As a commodity, it certainly doesn't embody any more use-value then any other poker book, or book for that matter.
).I'm not even saying Easy Game is worth its price when compared to alternatives. I just couldn't let a justification of piracy using hilariously incorrect economics go by without calling it out. Especially when you're trying to claim the moral high ground.
