ArtemisMar 20

When you get taught about scary, scary communism as a kid, they make it sound as though it means you couldn't even own your teddy bear.

No one explains (likely because they themselves believed the same when they were taught) the difference between your teddy bear & a factory.

Show threadArtemisMar 20

Maybe people could enjoy their own personal objects WITHOUT us having to allow some people to hoard resources. Maybe those two things really aren't the same type of thing. Maybe the fact we call them both "property" obscures their differences.

We can share the resources in common for the common good AND you can have your very own teddy bear that is just yours. I promise.

Show threadTzimisce FleshMar 20
@artemis Yeah, "use the same word for two different adjacent things" is an absolute blight for discourse.
Show threadTzimisce FleshMar 20
@artemis You can say you don't like intellectual property and people will go "so you support lying about authorship?".
Show threadLaurent Bercot

@flesh @artemis it happens all the time. And it's impossible to tell if it's done in bad faith or out of pure ignorance, which makes attempts to educate a bad strategy because it can be used by bad actors to waste your time and energy.

I hate this timeline.

Mar 20 at 2:26pmWeb