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As a knowledge worker, I think they fact that I have a property right over my work product is good for me. I agree to assign this right to my employer only beca

As a knowledge worker, I think they fact that I have a property right over my work product is good for me. I agree to assign this right to my employer only because they pay me very well to do so. I see others, who don’t have some kind of similar property interest in their work product, get treated a lot worse. In this world where landowners and shareholders have so much power, it’s nice to be able to carve out a nice living using nothing other than what I can create with the organ between my ears. I think if it took that away, it would cut off one of the only routes to income mobility in the 21st century.

advael 5y ago
As a knowledge worker, I know for a fact that the market rates for my work have everything to do with the calculated need the company that hired me for has, and any intellectual property that may get produced by that work is only captured as a matter of course, because despite commanding a decent amount of negotiating power even for technical fields, it is very difficult to negotiate a contract that assigns a license rather than full ownership of IP to the company just due to most people not reading contracts and it being "standard practice" by now. If someone told you that they've factored the speculative value of potential future IP into your rate somehow, they're bullshitting you