Comment by idiotsecant
19 hours ago
The death of IP in the west. Good thing? Bad thing? Who knows. Definitely the start of something big though.
19 hours ago
The death of IP in the west. Good thing? Bad thing? Who knows. Definitely the start of something big though.
Mightn't be so bad if all the value wasn't being captured by trillion dollar corps, despite them benefiting off the labor and creativity of countless non consenting individuals
Those trillion dollar corps also employ millions of people in very high paying jobs. And the extraordinary stock returns have made their engineers (and countless public investors) wealthy across the past half century.
People wishing for the death of the mega corps, are directly wishing for the obliteration of millions of great jobs.
I’m not sure people are “wishing for the death” in the literal sense.
We just need to apply the antitrust law and break these trillion-dollar corps into smaller competing corps.
There’s no reason for a single company to provide your email, browser, search, operating system, entertainment, AI, etc.
How many of those jobs do you expect them to retain as they build increasingly capable models?
How much of the profit will be redistributed to all the artists, programmers, scientists, etc. whose works are the foundation of their product?
The poorest 50% of global citizens hold the same combined wealth as the top 10 individuals.
How are massive and increasingly concentrated corporate profits going to help them? (Or anyone else for that matter).
well they won't give me one of those great jobs
>People wishing for the death of the mega corps, are directly wishing for the obliteration of millions of great jobs.
Yeah, I'll take the obliteration of a few million overpaid American jobs over the destruction of hundreds of millions worldwide, the social upheaval that goes with it, the destroyed families and the direct and indirect deaths. Fuck your promo packet and fuck your cozy desk job.
Cry me a river
IP is not dying. It’s being consolidated to just a few mega corps. Good thing? Bad thing? Definitely the start of something big though.
Imaginary Property was always an illusion, one which is now crumbling quickly despite a lot of desperate attempts at maintaining it.
Everything was, is, and always will be a derivative work.