I am ashamed that I hadn’t reasoned this through given all the rubbish digital services have pulled with “purchases” being lies.

  • Uriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    11 months ago

    People who assert property rights (including limited monopoly rights on intellectual property) are doing mental gymnastics too. We’re just used to them, thanks to a century of propaganda after the great depression.

    The current state of wealth distribution a century later doesn’t seem to carry the promise that capitalism can be fair.

    In fact, IP maximalism (Thanks, Walt!) has denied the public a robust public domain, and our courts struggle to do the mental gymnastics to understand why we have a public domain in the first place.

    That is to say, the US and EU have totally lost the plot.