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Re:Not by AI by originalcopying on Thursday March 16, 2023 @02:23PM (#35186104)
my gripes are about the stupidity that I see in refusing to accept that digital assets work different from all other physical ones.

I like this quote (paraphrase) of Byung Chul Han, "capitalism is not a political question, but a force of nature to be tamed".

My larger point being that capitalism "applied" to digital assets is NOT the way forwards. So I don't have a complete 'constructive' alternative. But I'm absolutely sure of what I don't want and believe should try to avoid i.e. the path we are on (digital rights, intellectual property, and so on).

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Re:Not by AI by __MatrixMan__ on Thursday March 16, 2023 @02:35PM (#35186302)
Totally agree. The idea that ideas/bits can be owned is a slippery slope with bad policy at the bottom. Maybe it was once necessary as a sort of training wheels for innovation, but it has long since become more of a drag than it's worth.
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Re:Not by AI by SuoDuanDao on Thursday March 16, 2023 @03:10PM (#35186790)
Ah, that's fair. I formulate a similar observation by saying that digital assets inhabit a post-scarcity economy which doesn't work the same as a resource-based scarcity one, and using the same money for both requires more suspension of disbelief than most of us are capable of.
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