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Dekkia@this.doesnotcut.it 4 days agoYou’re right. As we all know people only started to create art after IP laws where established.
Nobody ever made something original just for the joy of it. It’s only fair that a single company has the exclusive rights on a pants-wearing mouse that looks a certain way for 95 years.
Lightor@lemmy.world 4 days ago
This is a bad faith argument.
Forms of IP have existed for a long time. And back in your days you didn’t have one company that could have global reach in second.
You still ignore the fact that if I spend 5 years of my life writing a book, it could be taken away with no money to me. So people can no longer dedicate their lives to creating when they have bills to pay.
Dekkia@this.doesnotcut.it 3 days ago
Have you considered that the problem of not being able to create art for recreational purposes without thinking about its monetary value is the actual issue here?
Lightor@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Yes, I have.
But how exactly does getting rid of IP laws since that exactly? Because that’s what’s being proposed.
Dekkia@this.doesnotcut.it 3 days ago
Sorry if I wasn’t clear about that. Abolishing IP laws won’t fix capitalism.
There are other solutions for that. Most of them as unrealistic as abolishing IP laws. But we could try universal basic income as a stopgap.