• Hacksaw@lemmy.ca
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    9 months ago

    Absolute garbage comment. Our entire LIVES and upbringing is assimilation of thoughts and ideas. We literally have sayings like “imitation is the most sincere form of flattery”.

    Capitalism comes in and decides that ideas, in and of themselves, need to be monetized and commodified. We create parents and trademarks and copyrights, all flying in the face of millennia of human cultural evolution. Using this, we decide that copying is stealing. Absolute insanity. Stealing is wrong because it DEPRIVES someone of the use of their property. Copying doesn’t deprive anyone from shit!

    We have a system where if someone finds a good way of doing something, but doesn’t play nice with others, we DEMAND other people to use INFERIOR ways of doing that thing so we don’t make the original inventor mad. This might, maybe, make sense with people, but corporations own just about every useful patent we’ve ever made, corporations aren’t people, we don’t owe them shit. ABSOLUTELY RIDICULOUS! IDEAS ARE NOT PROPERTY! IMITATION ISN’T STEALING! How did we even get here?

    • Malek061@lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

      The problem is these new ideas cost time, money, manpower to create. Why would any person spend the time and energy to make something new only for someone to take your work?

      • Herbal Gamer@sh.itjust.works
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        9 months ago

        Because maybe it might be nice to contribute to the betterment of humanity as a whole?

        You sound like if you invented a cure for cancer, you’d jack up the price immediately.