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If it's so stupid, how do they manage to get so many billions out of it?
by Maken 3y ago
If it's so stupid, how do they manage to get so many billions out of it?
- LocalH 3y agoThuggery and exploitation
- jasmer 3y ago[dead]
- constantcrying 3y agoThe concept that corporations can have control over the works of a long dead person and can claim damages for people archiving and distributing those works is stupid.
- rakoo 3y agoBeing rich is not the same as being intelligent
- decremental 3y ago[dead]
- taormina 3y agoSomething being stupid and something being technically not illegal are wildly orthogonal.
- behringer 3y agoGetting billions out of something doesn't make it smart.
- prepend 3y agoPeople get billions out of lots of dumb stuff. I’m reading the Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg and just heard a story how the toothpaste craze in the early 20th century was started by Pepsodent linking toothpaste to people feeling the film on their teeth. But this film isn’t bad and toothpaste doesn’t do anything to help with it. You can get rid of the film with anything, like eating an apple. It’s dumb that people would feel this film and want to use pepsodent to brush away the film. But they made billions. Lots of dumb things make money. Doesn’t mean they should. And certainly doesn’t mean they should to the limitation or destruction of other value (in this case maximalist copyright laws are endangering the preservation of culture).