capitalism is a sicko's idea of an economic system. like, you need money to buy the things you need to live, and you need a job to get that money, but you can't just ask for one and if you can't get one you're stuck in a tent under the freeway. and everyone's screwing you every step of the way
Comment on Calif. passes strongest right-to-repair bill yet, requiring 7 years of parts
whitecapstromgard@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
It’s a sad condemnation of capitalism that such bills are needed.
Uranium3006@kbin.social 1 year ago
Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Why is everything always about capitalism on Lemmy? Like, seriously… This is becoming a parody of itself.
SmoothIsFast@citizensgaming.com 1 year ago
Because it’s related, go lick corporate boots on reddit if that’s what you like to do
over_clox@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Oh sure, act like Lemmy created Capitalism because people discuss it here…
What you want people to do, passively ignore it and the damages it causes to the poor consumers?
PostmodernPythia@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Because capitalism’s the dominant economic system, and thus deeply related to most people’s problems? Don’t like it? I’m sure there are right-leaning Lemmy instances that rarely talk about capitalism.
vector_zero@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Food for thought: Is it truly capitalism if random companies aren’t allowed to freely manufacture spare parts?
This smells more like government-granted monopolies than capitalism.
foggy@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Ah, and here we scratch the surface of the problems with intellectual property in an internet connected era.
Gimly@lemmy.world 1 year ago
This! Patent, trademarks, copyrights, all those intellectual properties laws were created more than a century ago, a time very different from us, with no corporations capable of pushing hundreds of not thousands of patents per year.
Those laws are so outdated that they are played to the inverse of what they were supposed to do. They were created to protect the inventor to make sure he can win money on his invention, today they are used to protect big corporation to make sure they can buy or kill whoever they want who would risk attacking their revenue.
They were invented as a way to push creativity and protect it but they are used today to limit and block creativity. There’s a good reason why creativity in technology in the last 10 years has come more from open source movements (additive manufacturing, blockchain, machine learning, etc.). It’s the only way to still protect creativity, making it open, therefore non patentable.
corrupts_absolutely@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
but dont you think artists such as universal, sony and warner mg deserve to rightfully be rewarded for their art?
The_Vampire@lemmy.world 1 year ago
A big part of the issue is just how long they last, which has been pushed back by big corporations (looking at you, Disney). 20 years should be plenty to recoup an investment, the original time was 14 years + a potential 14 more on renewal (so 28), and the current 95 years is ridiculous.