The Pig and the Box
A fable about a pig, a magic copying box, and why hoarding it goes badly. Downloaded over two million times in a dozen languages.
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A pig finds a box that makes twenty-seven copies of anything you throw into it, and handles the resulting attention poorly. Just a smidge.
Downloaded over two million times and translated into a dozen languages by readers, none of whom asked permission first, because they never needed to. This is the book that proved the argument the rest of this page is making.
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“The Pig and the Box” by MCM (2009), https://mcm.1889.ca/commons/pig-and-the-box — licensed CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
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