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if there is only one person providing food, at that point it becomes economically viable for individuals and consumers alike to produce food Not if companies o
by codexon 17y ago
if there is only one person providing food, at that point it becomes economically viable for individuals and consumers alike to produce food
Not if companies own most of the arable land and IP on harvesting machinery.
- nitrogen 17y agoNot if companies own most of the arable land and IP on harvesting machinery. Intellectual property laws are based on the concept that ideas and goods are scarce. If automation makes physical production as cost-free as digital production is now, then all IP laws (not just copyright and software patent laws) will have to be revised to accommodate the fundamental change in the nature and abundance of goods and ideas. Plus, as they say, there's more than one way to skin a cat. Someone can design a harvester based on old technology, or a radically different design.