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You’re right. I think of it this way. The more we dematerialize the economy the more intellectual property will become the only form of property most people can
by api 3y ago
You’re right. I think of it this way. The more we dematerialize the economy the more intellectual property will become the only form of property most people can own besides financial assets and their time.
Taking that away only gives even more power to the super rich by transforming all human intellectual products into free labor for portals and paywalls to aggregate and sell back to us.
They already do that of course but without copyright there would be no way to prevent them from doing it with any work.
- throwawaymaths 3y agoMaybe you should flip your argument. The less we protect "IP", the more we rematerialize the economy, and reward people making innovations in pushing atoms over people pushing electrons. That might be a good thing
- api 3y agoI'm not sure most people can do that in a world with 10 billion humans. A whole lot of pushing atoms will be automated and the rest will require advanced engineering degrees.