my mom’s argument against piracy is “well what if you wrote a book and one person bought it and then hundreds of people got to read it for free and you didn’t make any money!”
MOTHER YOU HAVE JUST DESCRIBED
LIBRARIES
No, not really at all actually.
That is really not how libraries operate. Perhaps you should sit down with an actual librarian and learn about how things like royalties and various reproduction rights and copyrights work.