Comment on The History and Future of Digital Ownership
starbreaker@kbin.social 9 months ago
Why is it like this? Because this is what the rich want, and the rest of us don't have the nerve to guillotine them for it.
___f____g___@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
Mahlzeit@feddit.de 9 months ago
Maybe it’s not just what the rich want.
OP is unhappy about how little control we have over some of our property. The catch is that this property is also the property of someone else. Media is (mostly) the intellectual property of someone, and the owners can decide over it. So, in order for OP to have more control over “digital property”, one would need laws that limit control over property. Tough sell.
If you look at threads on AI, you will find them full of people who want expanded intellectual property. I doubt those are all bots or shills. I think they just want control over their own property, without considering that they are forging their own chains. When you increase the power of property, you increase the power of the rich and diminish your own.
TheFriar@lemm.ee 9 months ago
With the trend of everything these days, I’m beyond tired of our station in this world—during our ONE FUCKING life we get, we’re nothing more than pockets. And when those pockets are empty, you’re nothing.
A chaotic world of post-societal-collapse would be fuckin awful, but at least we’d be free of bought/paid-for capitalist “living.” We’re not living under capitalism, we live for capitalism. It’s so goddamn frustrating and tragic.