When the profitability of creating valuable information decreases, and copying valuable information increases, people will do more of the latter and less of th

When the profitability of creating valuable information decreases, and copying valuable information increases, people will do more of the latter and less of the former. I don't see how it wouldn't turn out like that. With regard to the second, yes a case can be made that since countries invade privacy any way, utilizing this information like this doesn't add to the privacy invasion. Maybe. But an admittedly speculative argument could be made that it makes more people economically dependent on income taxation (like the hypothetical tax receipt roll scourers who identify and stalk successful truffle foragers), making it harder to abolish the institution. The way I see it, the less we normalize income taxation, the better.