https://old.reddit.com/r/writing/comments/18h6ndp/please_read_more
OP posts a longpost but it basically says "you should read books if you want to write".
Post is fairly new, but 9/10 of top-level comments are 
YOU DONT NEED TO READ TO WRITE WHAT IF SOMEONE CANT AFFORD BOOKS
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Lmao, just download books for free or go to a public library.
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If you can access reddit you can access Project Gutenberg.
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FINANCIAL REASONS
Redditors justify everything like this. Financial reasons is also why they have to eat grubhub instead of buying ingredients at a store. (Don't ask them to do the actual math on this)
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I'm poor because I'm fat, and I'm fat because I'm poor. It's a vicious cycle.
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Jesus frick, these are the same people that think books are illegal in Florida
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Our grandparents: "This is a Luger I pulled off a Kraut I ventilated in the war (or maybe it was two days ago and grandpa fricking murdered someone, he gets forgetful)".
Grandparents in 2063: "This is my most prized possession, owning these could have like literally gotten me killed when I was your age."
Pulls out the Harry Potter book collection
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Actual footage smuggled out of Orlando the other day:
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Also, all of the classic pieces of literature are in the public domain and can be downloaded for free from random book archive sites you can find on Google. I doubt the average /r/writingstrag has read Nietzsche, Dostoevsky, or Emerson outside of class though.
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i can't download books because they seized my hard drives and I cant go the library because i pooped a big one on ground in a state of anxiety and mental illness and now they have security guard and they check ids to make sure poopers cant enter since they poop big ones on ground
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But i live in a Library desert.
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