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Students do homework for learning purposes, not because they are producing anything valuable. Copying something (eg. a movie) is a different issue from copying
by _Algernon_ 3y ago
Students do homework for learning purposes, not because they are producing anything valuable.
Copying something (eg. a movie) is a different issue from copying something and lying about it being your own work.
I'd celebrate if we ever reach the point were we are in a post-scarcity world for physical goods. But we are already there for intellectual "property" and it's being ruined by lawyers and bureaucrats.
- advael 3y agoI do think the paradigm of intellectual property is fundamentally broken, but you can't claim we're post-scarcity for knowledge when vast swaths of the economy are knowledge work and economic viability is still a requirement to live I don't even think you can have "post-scarcity" dynamics in a piecemeal manner like this, because any erosion of scarcity is an erosion of value in an environment that is ruled by economic paradigms that equate the two