Now I understand your point, which is a reasonable one. The situation is that the economy in general is tanking, people are not going to bookstores, etc., so authors, who, as you point out, are not wealthy, have even less income now. In other words, it's a particularly cruel time for the "Emergency Library" to be taking money out of their pockets.
So if most authors don't make a whole lot anyway if copyright went away or was drastically limited but you received basic income and medical would you be better off or worse?
