Trampling of open content is a part of wider tendency of governments everywhere in the world to suppress and reverse automation by passing labor-intensive laws

Trampling of open content is a part of wider tendency of governments everywhere in the world to suppress and reverse automation by passing labor-intensive laws and subsidizing labor-intensive businesses. Every time we make progress with automation, they invent more work for us to do. Open content is up to 100 times more popular. It therefore requires up to 100 times less work to satisfy demand. They just cannot let this happen. This follows from the strange ethic of valuing hard work over efficiency. Labor is sacred. Avoidance of work is considered amoral. Economic output is supposed to be split according to the amount of work done, at least in theory. Any other alternative is considered communist. In order to maintain this moral system, people must be made to work even if the work is useless or subversive.