Probably not; OP wants to "check the immoral companies, governments, and other unscrupulous entities" and to "Screw Meta and their anti-human business model".
Giving money to the author rather than getting it for free has absolutely nothing to do with that laudable goal.
It's not as if the commenter's money would magically go to Meta if they did not give it to the book's author instead.
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Probably not; OP wants to "check the immoral companies, governments, and other unscrupulous entities" and to "Screw Meta and their anti-human business model".
Giving money to the author rather than getting it for free has absolutely nothing to do with that laudable goal.
It's not as if the commenter's money would magically go to Meta if they did not give it to the book's author instead.