Copyright is rent seeking, all IP should be abolished.
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Replying to @ladyattis
Rent seeking is good, actually, and accepting that it's bad is uncritically accepting a neoliberal view of economics
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Replying to @arthur_affect
That's about as silly as saying Adam Smith was a neoliberal. Neoliberals are the primary ones who advocate for stricter IP laws. It's anarchists and socialists who view such laws as an impediment to creative action and one's labor.
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Replying to @ladyattis @arthur_affect
And the fact you don't acknowledge that rent seeking has led to horrors such as the gig economy and the DCMA really shows your ignorance.
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Replying to @ladyattis
Lol the *whole concept* of the "gig economy" was to attack "rent-seekers", that's their whole ideological selling point What Paul Graham called "liberating potential energy" Uber busting up the old taxicab medallion "cartel", Airbnb busting up the hotel industry's "oligopoly"
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Replying to @arthur_affect
While acting as a middle man that EXTRACTS value from the labor of the drivers themselves. But please continue to lie about the impact of Uber on labor rights (i.e. they keep calling their drivers contractors and fight all unionization).
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Replying to @ladyattis
Right, Uber is anti-union because they're ideologically opposed to "rent seekers", their whole deal is pushing for low low prices for the consumer by any means necessary
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Replying to @arthur_affect @ladyattis
How in the world are you conceiving of rent seeking? This is a very idiosyncratic usage if I've ever heard of one.
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Replying to @MuddledFire @ladyattis
Lol no attacking labor unions as "rent-seekers" isn't idiosyncratic at all, it's as old as the use of that term
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Replying to @arthur_affect @ladyattis
How are you using the term, though?
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It's someone who's exercising some sort of legal or practical control over access to a market for a given good or service to charge more for it than the price that would theoretically obtain under "perfect competition"
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