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”Intellectual property is the oil of the 21 century. Look at the richest men a hundred years ago; they all made their money extracting natural resources or movi
by cpach 6y ago
”Intellectual property is the oil of the 21 century. Look at the richest men a hundred years ago; they all made their money extracting natural resources or moving them around. All today’s richest men have made their money out of intellectual property.“ –Mark Getty, founder of Getty Images
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- lioeters 6y agoUgh, what a clueless analogy, blind to its own obsolescence and polluting effect on society.
- caslon 6y agoIt's actually a perfect and terribly perceptive analogy. He's right! Like Rockefeller and Carnegie and his grandfather before him, he's made a load of money and made the world a worse place while doing it, all the while not even attempting to contribute anything to society. He doesn't claim to be a good man, he claims to be a rich man.
- qznc 6y agoMy manager, who is American, once made a comparison that completely blew my mind: we laugh at native Americans handing over their land without really understanding that they're getting screwed in the transaction, and yet we just hand over our personal data to Google and Facebook without a second thought. We barely even have a concept of data ownership. –u/henrebotha https://old.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/kd0s5c/dont_rely_on_a_single_company_for_all_your/gfuq9ex/ https://old.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/kd0s5c/dont_rel...