Re:A Man Who’s Spending $1B to Own Every Pop Song
by TomMckenny on Saturday January 11, 2020 @04:35PM
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That 90% does not live on IP, they live by offering medical care, police service, education, roads, reservoirs and aqueducts. By transporting those farm goods, inventing new tractors and efficiently managing all these things.
And while pop songs artists may deserve compensation, society does not crucially depend on someone collecting royalties for generations after the guy's death.
On the farmer analogy (and inspired by the recent .org tld acquisition), if one really wanted to extract rents, simply acquire the land they work on and set them all to sharecropping.
And while pop songs artists may deserve compensation, society does not crucially depend on someone collecting royalties for generations after the guy's death.
On the farmer analogy (and inspired by the recent .org tld acquisition), if one really wanted to extract rents, simply acquire the land they work on and set them all to sharecropping.