Copyright was to prevent unscrupulous printers from making copies of an author's works without paying them. So basically a sort of market control to encourage writing. Now most copyright is owned by big companies, and the very biggest companies (AI giants) just ignore copyright and have no penalties.
(I know copyright is not the same as patent, I just thought that I'd mention this anyway!)
To see people behaving greedily under capitalism and conclude greed is human nature is the same as to see people drowning in the ocean and conclude drowning is human nature.
Unless they invented it to increase their own already considerable wealth, of course, in which case they would have gotten their thirty million pieces of silver for dooming most of humanity.
Greed. Does it even exist? Human nature or merely an emergent phenomenon of nature itself. What would humanity have to eviscerate from ourselves to remove greed from our so-called nature?
~ Just silly shower thoughts not to be taken seriously.
Ok, haha. I said 'no offense' so...
I actually meant to write more but I got a call.
It's just that while there's plenty wrong with capitalism, this post doesn't really hit the mark. In the context of a Neanderthal, most innovation would require very little investment of resources, and even larger projects which might require community involvement would be organized through examples, trust and like mindedness, or tribal dominance. Only once much larger and complex innovative projects needing regulated investment of some sort are considered, does capitalism even make sense. And then it makes sense for the same reasons that early capitalism can contribute a lot to growth and wellbeing.
21 Comments
rem26_art@fedia.io · 31 pts · 218d
the only reason we crawled out of the ocean and onto land was because we had to go to work or else our boss would get mad
kevin2107@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 217d
damnit god
logicbomb@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 218d
Which came first? Inventions or Intellectual Property laws? You obviously can't have the one without the other.
SolacefromSilence@fedia.io · 14 pts · 218d
Oi, you got a patent for that invention?
shane@feddit.nl · 9 pts · 217d
Copyright was to prevent unscrupulous printers from making copies of an author's works without paying them. So basically a sort of market control to encourage writing. Now most copyright is owned by big companies, and the very biggest companies (AI giants) just ignore copyright and have no penalties.
(I know copyright is not the same as patent, I just thought that I'd mention this anyway!)
Flatworm7591@lemmy.dbzer0.com MOD · 19 pts · 218d
While this is optional, it is encouraged. Thanks!
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 8 pts · 217d
Done 🙂
wpb@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 217d
To see people behaving greedily under capitalism and conclude greed is human nature is the same as to see people drowning in the ocean and conclude drowning is human nature.
Agent641@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 217d
Did the person who invented capitalism even get paid for their idea?
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 217d
Almost definitely not.
Unless they invented it to increase their own already considerable wealth, of course, in which case they would have gotten their thirty million pieces of silver for dooming most of humanity.
sfgifz@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 217d
Touché.
aarch0x40@piefed.social · 4 pts · 218d
An early hominid can dream, though. sigh
Cattail@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 217d
Then: what's the reason to innovate without capitalism?
Me: first of many is wanting to make the lives of the people you live better
explodicle@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 217d
Most hunter gatherers don't innovate or try anything new. Their lives are basically the same as their mothers and fathers.
It was agriculture, not capitalism, that started our rapid transformation. We only started agriculture after hundreds of thousands of years.
drkt_@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 217d
pilferjinx@piefed.social · 2 pts · 218d
Greed. Does it even exist? Human nature or merely an emergent phenomenon of nature itself. What would humanity have to eviscerate from ourselves to remove greed from our so-called nature?
~ Just silly shower thoughts not to be taken seriously.
CannonFodder@lemmy.world · -10 pts · 217d
Kinda a stupid take (no offense).
sfgifz@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 217d
You want to see a real stupid take? Check this out! https://lemmy.world/comment/21506748
athatet@lemmy.zip · 9 pts · 217d
Oh yeah?
CannonFodder@lemmy.world · -8 pts · 217d
Ok, haha. I said 'no offense' so...
I actually meant to write more but I got a call.
It's just that while there's plenty wrong with capitalism, this post doesn't really hit the mark. In the context of a Neanderthal, most innovation would require very little investment of resources, and even larger projects which might require community involvement would be organized through examples, trust and like mindedness, or tribal dominance. Only once much larger and complex innovative projects needing regulated investment of some sort are considered, does capitalism even make sense. And then it makes sense for the same reasons that early capitalism can contribute a lot to growth and wellbeing.
TherapyGary@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 10 pts · 217d
Hmm
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 217d
They forgot the last part of the sentence:
Capitalism can contribute a lot to growth and wellbeing of rich people's finances.