Yeah but we need the Star Trek society first. In principle, I absolutely agree that IP is bullshit. The problem that many people in the “smash IP” camp tend to

Yeah but we need the Star Trek society first. In principle, I absolutely agree that IP is bullshit. The problem that many people in the “smash IP” camp tend to ignore is that people needing to eat, have a place to live, not having a stage 1 cancer diagnosis be an instant death sentence, and things like that aren’t merely “regrettable collateral damage” on the road to freeing data. I’ve encountered many people over the years that hardline shit like that—they’re almost exclusively middle to upper middle class suburbanites that are edge lording that stuff to subconsciously quiet their deep-seated insecurities about how incredibly soft their comparatively unchallenged existence has made them.