[HN Gopher] France Gave Teenagers $350 for Culture. They're Buyi...
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       France Gave Teenagers $350 for Culture. They're Buying Comic Books
        
       Author : ingve
       Score  : 3 points
       Date   : 2021-07-28 18:04 UTC (58 minutes ago)
        
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       | Zababa wrote:
       | The title is pedantic, as were many reactions from older people
       | on French twitter, which is not really surprising. I'd rather
       | have them buy manga from actual living authors compared to things
       | that already fell into the public domain, like Proust or Moliere.
       | However that would mean publishers can't get free money by guilt
       | tripping people into consumming the "good" kind of culturen, so
       | that wouldn't work. I do wish this money could be used to buy an
       | e-reader though, you could get one for ~100EUR and still have
       | 200EUR for whatever you want.
        
       | sharkmerry wrote:
       | > But the focus on comic books reveals a subtle tension at the
       | heart of the Culture Pass's design, between the almost total
       | freedom it affords it young users -- including to buy the mass
       | media they already love -- and its architects' aim of guiding
       | users toward lesser-known and more highbrow arts.
       | 
       | Seems they could have made the items they wanted to guide users
       | towards free or cheaper, rather than handing out money and hoping
       | 
       | > Noel Corbin, a Culture Ministry official who oversees the
       | project, said the pass gave France's newly minted adults a way of
       | looking up nearby cultural offerings -- the app has a geolocation
       | feature -- and encouraged them to indulge their cultural
       | passions.
       | 
       | Manga may not be for everyone, but is this not part of their
       | cultural passions?
        
         | imtringued wrote:
         | >Seems they could have made the items they wanted to guide
         | users towards free or cheaper
         | 
         | What they should have done is first hand out a month of free
         | coupons for local french books/movies/books/music and then once
         | everyone used their coupons they can decide for themselves
         | whether they want to spend their culture pass balance on that.
        
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