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Whether or not the government should be granting monopolies in the form of IP and whether it's fine to violate property rights in a capitalist system, are two d
by lovich 8y ago
Whether or not the government should be granting monopolies in the form of IP and whether it's fine to violate property rights in a capitalist system, are two different questions
I can see your other viewpoints but I do not understand how your seeming desire for no laws is based in capitalism. Property rights and rule of law are basic necessities for capitalism
- 1996 8y agoNot everyone agreees on this "basic necessity" There is hardly anything more capitalistic than the Mises institute. Yet they share these ideas! https://mises.org/library/patents-and-copyrights-should-be-repealed https://mises.org/library/patents-and-copyrights-should-be-r... https://mises.org/library/there-room-intellectual-property-rights-austrian-economics https://mises.org/library/there-room-intellectual-property-r... extracts: "Like many libertarians, I initially assumed intellectual property (IP) was a legitimate type of property right. But I had misgivings from the start: there was just something too utilitarian..."
- lovich 8y agoI think you're conflating two points. I know many, capitalistic, people believe that IP should not exist. However it does currently exist as property of people. If property rights are not respected then capitalism falls apart as you'd have land and capital stolen and kept by whoever could bring the most force