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IP rules restrict others' production or ownership. Wealth is owning of the products themselves. You don't become less wealthy in that sense if another person ma
by unishark 5y ago
IP rules restrict others' production or ownership. Wealth is owning of the products themselves. You don't become less wealthy in that sense if another person makes a copy of something you own.
- js8 5y agoNot all of them, copyright doesn't. In any case, aside from something like a Minecraft world, I don't really see how you can "create wealth" without taking from someone else first. Can you provide a positive example?
- unishark 5y agoWhat is included in "taking from someone"? Am I allowed to purchase or gather cheap resources and make much more valuable products after applying skilled labor?
- js8 5y agoYes. But I am not sure how you transfer the fruits of this labor to your descendants, so they would benefit from it. Every property needs maintenance, and "being rich" (as OP said), or even middle-class, means to have enough property that you need to hire somebody (at least ocassionally) to maintain it. Also OP talked about building an institution, which presumably means that there are other people involved. Unless he meant something like building a worker cooperative, I feel like in the arrangement he envisioned for his descendants, it will be other people working for them, providing them with their labor. I don't see that much different from feudal arrangements.