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A good idea will win on its merits or fail.
Legal ownership of ideas just tether us to paying Disney and Google’s of the world in perpetuity as they buy everything up.
We basically live in a state sanctioned system of quota and expropriation of effort. It’s not violent like the USSR, so we look beyond it.
And we spend a lot of energy policing it all.
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A good idea will win on its merits or fail.
Legal ownership of ideas just tether us to paying Disney and Google’s of the world in perpetuity as they buy everything up.
We basically live in a state sanctioned system of quota and expropriation of effort. It’s not violent like the USSR, so we look beyond it.
And we spend a lot of energy policing it all.