I made an E-book compiling the best of r/personalfinance

Re:I made an E-book compiling the best of r/personalfinance by detaro on Monday April 27, 2020 @04:22PM (#22999593)

It's literally other people's content copy-pasted in a "book". Even "free" (you still need to enter an e-mail address) that's not a great way of generating content (I guess you could argue there is some marginal value in selecting 50 "good" posts?), taking money for it is pretty slime-y.

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Re:I made an E-book compiling the best of r/personalfinance by pmiller2 on Monday April 27, 2020 @04:52PM (#22999907)

I would agree with you if it were not possible to pay $0. But, there was work that went into compiling and laying this out, and that does add some value. I see no problem with offering this content on this basis, for the price of an email address, especially considering you can use a throwaway address.

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Re:I made an E-book compiling the best of r/personalfinance by toolz on Monday April 27, 2020 @04:27PM (#22999651)

Then don't buy or exchange your email for it? I'm not sure why you feel the need to tell the rest of us how to morally evaluate this optional e-book. I traded my email for it and my morals weren't violated in the slightest.

Are you planning on competing with the product or do you just want to see that person fail for no particular reason?

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Re:I made an E-book compiling the best of r/personalfinance by detaro on Monday April 27, 2020 @04:29PM (#22999672)

I just gave an answer to a question asked.

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Re:I made an E-book compiling the best of r/personalfinance by paulcole on Monday April 27, 2020 @10:20PM (#23002657)

“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”

I mean I’m not a good man so the quote kind of falls apart but you get the idea.

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