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Copyright and Patents are about using government force to enable a business model that couldn’t exist with purely voluntary transactions. People would have to f
by EGreg 4y ago
Copyright and Patents are about using government force to enable a business model that couldn’t exist with purely voluntary transactions. People would have to find other ways to make money without enabling an enforcer with a peculiar laws about “owning ideas”.
On the other hand, government is what can end factory farms. No market mechanism can do it since it actually makes a factory farm more competitive the more it cuts corners and costs on housing animals and fattens them with antibiotics.
The people who don’t care about animal welfare might be persuaded if they realized just how much factory farms contribute to the rise of antibiotic resistant MRSA bacteria and other superbugs. They could make the past pandemic look like a cakewalk.