I'm with you on the preference for paper books. I have many of both, but vastly prefer paper (which perhaps is not the best choice environmentally).
I'm not sure I agree that trading long-term survival for short-term gain can always be described as greed. I would suggest that when the same person that accepts the short-term gain is the one that will impair his own long-term survival, it is either a case of high time preference ("one marshmallow now instead of two marshmallows later", per the famous study) or a case of ignorance. Greed is only certain if you are trading someone else's long-term survival for your own short-term gain.
I'm with you on the preference for paper books. I have many of both, but vastly prefer paper (which perhaps is not the best choice environmentally).
I'm not sure I agree that trading long-term survival for short-term gain can always be described as greed. I would suggest that when the same person that accepts the short-term gain is the one that will impair his own long-term survival, it is either a case of high time preference ("one marshmallow now instead of two marshmallows later", per the famous study) or a case of ignorance. Greed is only certain if you are trading someone else's long-term survival for your own short-term gain.