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"IP" is a fiction invented to justify collecting rent from unproductive assets and ultimately serves to prevent underdeveloped countries from developing industr

by xtian 4y ago

"IP" is a fiction invented to justify collecting rent from unproductive assets and ultimately serves to prevent underdeveloped countries from developing industrial capacity. Every industrialized country in the world (including the US) "stole IP" when they were developing.

nradov 4y ago
Any country with ICBMs pointed at us cannot plausibly claim special privileges for being "underdeveloped".
- xtian 4y ago
  I didn't claim China was underdeveloped. They're very obviously the premier industrial power in the world. The people demanding ahistorical special privileges are so-called "intellectual property holders". I have zero sympathies for the plight of these parasitical rent collectors. They certainly don't hold any special sympathies for the American people.
  - nradov 4y ago
    I'm not sure what you mean by "ahistorical special privileges". Intellectual property rights have been around for centuries. Patents and copyright are specifically mentioned in the Constitution.
    - xtian 4y ago
      https://www.history.com/news/industrial-revolution-spies-europe https://www.history.com/news/industrial-revolution-spies-eur...
      - nradov 4y ago
        What's your point? Countries have always spied on each other. It would have been entirely reasonable for those European countries to sanction the USA for IP violations.
        xtian 4y ago
        Who would that have benefited?
programmer_dude 4y ago
No body owes China anything.