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This is a deeply philosophical issue. Ideas can be encoded in text there are laws that protect ideas, but then there is rights such as free speech which are mea
by c01n 5y ago
This is a deeply philosophical issue. Ideas can be encoded in text there are laws that protect ideas, but then there is rights such as free speech which are meant to protect what we say and how we express ourselves. From a socialism perspective ideas should belong to everyone, capitalism would say an individual has the right to own an idea from the set of all ideas if they discovered it, or own some text (code) from the set of all possible text.
- nybble41 5y ago> capitalism would say an individual has the right to own an idea "Capitalism" says no such thing. Property under capitalism is a consequence of scarcity; property rights exist specifically because a particular good cannot be expended for two different purposes at the same time. As such, someone must decide how the property will be used, and the entity with the right to make that decision is designated the owner. Ideas lack scarcity—the same idea can be used for any number of purposes simultaneously without being used up—and consequently are outside the capitalist definition of property. Assigning fake "ownership" privileges to ideas infringes on the exercise of actual property rights, effectively seizing private property (including capital) for public use to to implement a policy of subsidizing the creation of new copyrightable works or patentable inventions, which is an inherently socialist exercise of government power.
- c01n 5y agoI never really understood this things. Thank you for clearing this up.