• Doomsider@lemmy.world
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    4 hours ago

    This is how it was before patent law. The sciences, arts, and commerce existed for thousands of years without these corporate laws. It is about creating artificial scarcity, which is an incredibly dumb concept in our modern world.

    You need to eliminate the thought of the big guy stealing ideas from the little guy. This is propaganda used to play on our emotions. Intelectual Property benefits an extreme minority at the cost of billions of lives.

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      3 hours ago

      The sciences, arts, and commerce existed for thousands of years without these corporate laws.

      lol they also existed with hidden and encrypted ideas to, you know, protect intellectual property…

      “This is propaganda used to play on our emotions”

      Oh do tell

      " at the cost of billions of lives"

      😂

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        2 hours ago

        That literally has nothing to do with patents nowadays. No one is hiding anything anymore, it is about artificial scarcity to collect monopoly rents.

        The fact that you deny that we have already lost billions of lives because of corporations trying to extract monopoly rents is your perogative. It is stupid and ignorant, but your choice.