transportation and storage costs of digital goods might be very cheap (although not entirely free) but the biggest cost for digital goods is the same it often i

transportation and storage costs of digital goods might be very cheap (although not entirely free) but the biggest cost for digital goods is the same it often is for physical goods and services, which is human labour. Meatspace doesn't inherently differ from digital space. things in meatspace, like say land, didn't always have prices on them. That's a legal invention, the enclosure of the commons, and whether that was a good thing or a bad thing is up for debate but it certainly wasn't a fact of nature. The process of transferring something to private ownership used to be as foreign to physical things as it was to early digital things. Not because physical or digital goods have some spirit and agenda of wanting to be free, but because nobody had laid claim to it and turned it into a commodity and passed laws that governed their ownership. When land was enclosed in ~1200 that wasn't because it was so scarce, but because it was 'economically wasted' and 'operated inefficiently'. That's also the reason why digital spaces are being claimed, regardless of whether they're scarce or not.