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  • True, but then again there are so many such things. If I go into the woods for my own enjoyment and accidentally get lost requiring a rescue, am I being selfish? What about skiing, mountain climbing and all such activities? They all involve first responders saving your ass.

    Hell by that logic anyone who drives a vehicle on a public road for any non-productive reason is being selfish.



  • SorryQuick@lemmy.catome_irl@lemmy.worldme_irl
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    2 days ago

    Am I dumb or is that not supposed to be normal? With inflation you don’t expect it to go down, you expect it to go up a little bit every day.

    “The housing market is doing better” doesn’t mean prices are going down, but rather that it isn’t going up as fast as it used to.


  • You think? Because the vast majority of innovation (beyond the first few) was done by men who either had money (or priviliege, which in that time was the same thing) or men who were paid (or rewarded in some way) by those who did, resulting in the same thing. People who had no money/privilege and were not paid/sponsored did not have time to innovate, they had to spend their day trying to survive.

    If you were “paid” by your king/warlord or whoever, you think they allowed you to just go do the same for their enemy right after?

    Besides, I think we can all agree that innovation has been incredibly fast since capitalism came along, though whether it’s a cause or correlation is debatable. If your argument is that they came up with fire without copyright, then I’m afraid it’s not a very good one.





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    5 days ago

    But then if you can’t copyright it companies wouldn’t invest money in it since it wouldn’t be profitable. That’s kinda the whole point of copyright, so that there’s an incentive for innovation. Why invest in R&D when you can just let your competitor do it and immediately steal it from then?











  • Very much depends, not an absolutely true. Other commenter’s example is good: I can absolutely cook better steaks than all but one restaurant in a 30km radius. Pizza, sushi, most non-fish seafood? Not so.

    But truly the biggest win here is that you can choose what ingredients you use, and that usually results in “better” food than the restaurant simply because it’s cooked and spiced perfectly the way you like it.