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New rule: you get to keep your belongings for 20 years and that's it. Then they are taken away. Every dollar you made twenty or more years ago, every asset you
by kazinator 2y ago
New rule: you get to keep your belongings for 20 years and that's it. Then they are taken away. Every dollar you made twenty or more years ago, every asset you acquired, gone.
That oughtta be enough to incentivize people to work and build their wealth.
Anything more than that is unnecessary.
- FeepingCreature 2y agoWe should never have accepted the term "intellectual property" at all, if this is the mindset it leads to.
- lazyasciiart 2y agoI think you mean "20 years after you die". That seems like a perfectly rational way to deal with people who want to be buried in their gold and jewels in a pyramid.
- kazinator 2y agoOK, so you can have your dad's piano for 20 years after he dies, after that it's public property.
- umbra07 2y agoSome people would surprisingly agree with that.
- kazinator 2y agoWell, yes; some people would agree with the stronger proposition of you not getting that piano, or not without paying some tax on it.
- lazyasciiart 2y agoHow on earth do you classify estate taxes as stronger than fixed term ownership?
- kazinator 2y agoI don't, but, I mean, when someone comes and takes some of your money, then it means you had a fixed term on owning that amount, which just came to an end. "Stuff taken away" is "stuff taken away", no matter what angle we take.
- Ray20 2y agoBecause they didn't have a father?
- ars 2y agoIntellectual property does not belong to you. The entire concept of "owning" intellectual property is a very recent thing. So how about we go back to how it used to be and just remove this entire concept. You can own things you can't own an idea.
- hackable_sand 2y agoI disagree that you can own things, but I certainly concede IP as a good starting point.
- kazinator 2y agoSo you wouldn't mind if I dip my hands into the pockets of the clothing you are wearing and help myself to whatever cash bills I might find? Also, can you wash this not-my car I'm driving, that happens to be registered in my name? Let me know if you will be requiring compensation for not-your time and not-your effort. You will find the needed cleaning materials at the household goods store down the street. Just walk in, grab whatever you need, and walk out.
- kazinator 2y agoYour copyrighted work just has to be an original expression, not derived from someone else's work. It doesn't have to contain original ideas. Patents are for ideas. Patents do in fact expire far faster than copyrights in the USA. The main problem with patents is patent trolling in the area of software patents.
- ars 2y agoIt would be a lot easier to defend copyright if it expired quicker.
- kazinator 2y agoI used to be against copyright, but with the rise of scum like Altman, I'm going all in. Copyright should last forever, as long as the ownership is handed down through inheritance or other transactions and not assigned to the public domain.
- awb 2y agoSo every year I go to a swap meet and try to exchange my “expiring” belongings for something similar to reset the clock? Or, they get taken away by force? By someone who has meticulous records of all my stuff? What problem are you trying to solve?
- BeFlatXIII 2y agoIdeas are free to replicate. Nothing is taken.