Agreed volver. I've just taken a quick look at the Mumsnet thread. So much ignorance and assumption.
I don't understand the logic behind Anderson's slanderous statement. How is selling a book, royalties in pennies, taking advantage of the buyer?
Are, say, Joe Wicks and Michael Moseley taking advantage of people who wish to lose weight and improve their health? Is every writer who sells a book about coping with bereavement taking advantage of the bereaved? Is every writer of a text book taking advantage of an impoverished student?
His is an illogical and spurious argument.
Furthermore, books are there to entertain and educate. Isn't Monroe doing exactly what Anderson claims to do in "his" foodbank (i.e. educate) only on a much wider scale? Her books not only educate but provide jobs and put money (and tax revenue) into the economy via publishers, graphic designers, photographers, printers, booksellers, indeed the whole supply chain involved ... so people can work to earn money to buy food.
Tommy Robinson arrested. Police using their existing powers