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Power Is The Enemy Of Agency
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Star trek fans will see the federation imprison genetically engineered humans from birth to death, prevent them from having careers or reproducing, criminalize having genetically engineered children, and be like "no you don't get it, the federation needs to institutionally suppress those genes in order to fight eugenics"
Some software business models I like:
- Paid support/management tier: The software is free, but for a price, the creators will deal with deploying it for you and/or be on-call for support.
- Patreon style. Creators create software, those who want to ensure its continued maintenance and perhaps further elevate its quality set up recurring donations.
- Gofundme style. Creators with a new expensive idea and established reputation raise donations, if threshold is met they use it to make the thing.
- Paid support/management tier: The software is free, but for a price, the creators will deal with deploying it for you and/or be on-call for support.
- Patreon style. Creators create software, those who want to ensure its continued maintenance and perhaps further elevate its quality set up recurring donations.
- Gofundme style. Creators with a new expensive idea and established reputation raise donations, if threshold is met they use it to make the thing.
@thomasjwebb Ohio of course
@[email protected] @railing but you're talking about regulation. Regulation just restricts what people can do. I don't see how I'm supposed to interpret you as suggesting anything other than IP laws
@[email protected] @railing power to do what? To veto others using or sharing their art? That's IP
@[email protected] @railing that's at least a somewhat sympathizable motivation, but I think it's an incredibly self-defeating strategy. If you strengthen IP laws or social support to try and protect artists, what you'll achieve is
1) the random people who would've have bought your art still won't buy your art
2) Disney et al will continue to rob people, kidnap them, ruin lives, drive people to suicide
3) Millions will die due to patents
4) Disney et al will be pleased that art production remains high-capital
1) the random people who would've have bought your art still won't buy your art
2) Disney et al will continue to rob people, kidnap them, ruin lives, drive people to suicide
3) Millions will die due to patents
4) Disney et al will be pleased that art production remains high-capital
@[email protected] @railing If one person saves another's life, they become a determining cause of every further thing the person achieves. Should that make the person indebted as a permanent slave to the one who saved their life? Causing some good thing to exist in the world is very much not sufficient justification for having ownership of it.
@[email protected] @railing
There very much are other ways to critique capitalism than arguing that people should be able to enclose the full extent of causally downstream benefits of their labor. Isaac Newton was the first to figure out modern physics, and thus is causally upstream of the vast majority of productivity done today to a large extent. Do we owe the majority of the global GDP to his descendants?
There very much are other ways to critique capitalism than arguing that people should be able to enclose the full extent of causally downstream benefits of their labor. Isaac Newton was the first to figure out modern physics, and thus is causally upstream of the vast majority of productivity done today to a large extent. Do we owe the majority of the global GDP to his descendants?
@[email protected] @railing sure, that could be one such "added nuance," but this "telling someone's stalker their address" has little similarity or relevance to sharing art without paying rent on it