The employees toil to create amazing stuff and receive a pittance compared to what it's worth. Most of the profit goes to execs who have had no hand in creating anything of value.

Communism very popular these days on Hacker News; it's like being back in the 1960s at the start of the computer revolution, or on Slashdot in the very OSS days. You'll all turn and become capitalists eventually.

None of my comment suggests communism. Plus, your comment doesn't seem to add anything meaningful to the conversation as best as I can tell.

Yeah its an age/experience thing.

start a company why don't you, being an exec sounds simple enough

None of my comment suggests that it's easy. And more to the point, being hard doesn't mean that execs do good in the world.

Is this comment meant to say that not having IP laws would somehow assist in fixing this problem?

Yeah, about that - Disney decided years ago it doesn't need to pay authors royalties it legally owes them.

https://www.writersmustbepaid.org/

War is an ultimate employer of soldiers and workers that make things for war effort, does it therefore mean that we should continue wars or that all these people would otherwise be unemployed?

Without copyright, and especially century long Mickey Mouse copyright, it's easier to open your own smaller amusement park that competes with Disneyland, this will employ a lot of people outside LA or Orlando area. Plus I will still buy my games and movies from reputable sources that are fair to content creators. If some poor college students can't afford that, maybe it's good they can get a break.