Comment by ninetyninenine

8 days ago

Well you’re an outlier. Your refusal to participate in society makes almost everyone on earth disagree with you.

You’re suffering from the blowback of your own choices. If society adopted your philosophies, then society would be the one suffering.

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matheusmoreira  8 days ago

I didn't refuse to participate in society. I refused to participate in activities I personally believe are wrong. I don't really plan to take advantage of monopolies if I can avoid it. Whatever privileges I have that allow me to make this choice, I hope I can maintain them indefinitely.

I'm suffering nothing. There is no "blowback". I'm merely explaining to you why I don't believe in intellectual property. Because you asked.

  • ninetyninenine  7 days ago

    >I didn't refuse to participate in society. I refused to participate in activities I personally believe are wrong. I don't really plan to take advantage of monopolies if I can avoid it. Whatever privileges I have that allow me to make this choice, I hope I can maintain them indefinitely.

    If you refuse to participate in activities that you personally believe are wrong then based off of what you told me, you in actuality refuse to participate in society from an OVERALL perspective.

    >I'm suffering nothing. There is no "blowback". I'm merely explaining to you why I don't believe in intellectual property. Because you asked.

    This is the blowback:

    >I do have a GitHub Sponsors. For about a year, I had exactly one sponsor. Now I have zero.

    Negligible economic gain for your open source work. You may choose to personally not classify that as blowback, but my language is not referencing your personal opinion. You can think of it as saying: separate from your own opinion, basically everyone on the face of the earth things you suffer from "blowback".

    Not that it means anything of course. Only your opinion really matters. I'm just communicating my thoughts. Like you.

    • matheusmoreira  6 days ago

      I don't think my lack of sponsorships are at all attributable to my personal views on intellectual property.

      I think it's far more likely it's because I'm unknown, because my projects are unfinished, because my projects are bad or any number of other possible reasons.

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