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Jack Dorsey and Elon Musk would like to ‘delete all IP law’ | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
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Jack Dorsey, co-founder of Twitter (now X) and Square (now Block), sparked a weekend’s worth of debate around intellectual property, patents, and copyright, with a characteristically terse post declaring, “delete all IP law.”

X’s current owner Elon Musk quickly replied, “I agree.”

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This is a bad faith argument.

Forms of IP have existed for a long time. And back in your days you didn't have one company that could have global reach in second.

You still ignore the fact that if I spend 5 years of my life writing a book, it could be taken away with no money to me. So people can no longer dedicate their lives to creating when they have bills to pay.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Have you considered that the problem of not being able to create art for recreational purposes without thinking about its monetary value is the actual issue here?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Yes, I have.

But how exactly does getting rid of IP laws since that exactly? Because that's what's being proposed.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Sorry if I wasn't clear about that. Abolishing IP laws won't fix capitalism.

There are other solutions for that. Most of them as unrealistic as abolishing IP laws. But we could try universal basic income as a stopgap.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I think UBI would actually solve a lot of issues, the creative communities' financial struggle being one of them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

Weird. You called me evil when I suggested it as the correct way to pay creatives and everyone else. Maybe your problem with my argument is your own reading comprehension.