Great article. Intellectual property perfectly demonstrates the absurdity of capitalism. That kindergarten that got sued for painting Disney characters on their walls should be enough to turn anyone against copyright/IP.
this post was submitted on 23 Dec 2021
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Creativity has been sustainable for thousands of years before copyright.
The whole notion stems from capitalist dogma that people only do things when there's a profit motive at play.
I am very skeptical it would work because humans like owning things.
But what do I know, this kind of stuff is way above me anyway.
Just give me food and I'll turn it into code and crappy games.
Just give me food and I’ll turn it into code and crappy games.
Don't underestimate the number of people who just like you, like to do things :)
Of course there's a few tasks nobody wants to do and for that we need to share the work fairly. For the rest, passion should be driving society, not fear you're not going to be able to pay your bills by the end of the month.
Anyone have any follow up reading? I would love to read more comprehensively about how many of the mentioned ideas would actually be implemented in a cohesive system.
this is a pretty good dive into the subject http://www.dklevine.com/general/intellectual/against.htm
The author argues copyright is always bad. He makes parallels between art and food. i say natural forces are at play on the following axis :
1_ "thou shall not kill" (100%, Yes)
2_ give food to the starving (Oversea?)
3_ create sustainable communism (Hard!)
4_ tolerate until extinction (No way!)
PS : i did give to charities against oversea's misery, yet if I give everything, i will be in misery myself. There is a scale in virtue, copyright questions are entangled into that.
There's also the deranging question of what that money is for. Western NGOs are notorious for having more money used "locally" (eg. in France) as administrative fees (execs salaries, promotion campaigns..) and most of them spend their money very unwisely overseas: for example you can spend millions feeding people everyday with goods imported from Europe, or you can spend a few years exchanging with local farmers and developing a better understanding of permaculture mixes possible in that region so that people can be 100% autonomous.
Most NGOs are interested in "numbers" they can show to their ~~shareholders~~ donors (like all big bureaucratic orgs) and don't care about actual results.
i am lucky to know an honest and hard-working guy from an African country since many years. He maintains contact with his home place back there and exactly know the needs & how the money is//was spent ; to build a grain reserve "grenier".
Ah! That's the best kind of international support :)