Somebody would take your car if there wasn't any cops to intervene. And your food. Government enforcing the law that I can't take your stuff doesn't mean that government invented the stuff.
You give government far too much credit. Al Gore may have invented the internet, but government did not invent clothes and food and houses - protecting your stuff doesn't mean they invented it.
For some reason, if you spent a week in an preschool you will hear the cry "he copied me!". Always in an upset tone. The fact is,
Capitalism is a good tool, nothing more. (Score:5, Insightful)
The end result of unfettered capitalism is wealthy organisations eating everything and everyone else.
The power of wealth must be reigned in.
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Weird that you blame "capitalism" for an unnatural right to imaginary property invented by the government.
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Weird that you blame "capitalism" for an unnatural right to imaginary property invented by the government.
It wasn't invented by the government, it is just enforced by it (after sufficient lobbying efforts)
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It wasn't invented by the government, it is just enforced by it
Are you seriously claiming that, in the absence of government, authors would have no problem being compensated for their work?
Copyrights, patents, and trademarks exist only because governments say that they do.
Government invented cars and food? (Score:5, Insightful)
Somebody would take your car if there wasn't any cops to intervene. And your food. Government enforcing the law that I can't take your stuff doesn't mean that government invented the stuff.
You give government far too much credit. Al Gore may have invented the internet, but government did not invent clothes and food and houses - protecting your stuff doesn't mean they invented it.
For some reason, if you spent a week in an preschool you will hear the cry "he copied me!". Always in an upset tone. The fact is,
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I can't rightfully take the fruits of your creative labors...
No, you can't, but Disney can. And it has in this case.
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I can't rightfully take the fruits of your creative labors...
No, you can't, but Disney can. And it has in this case.
In this case? That's what they do. That's how disney started. How it did, does and will continue to operate and it's doing very well for them.