“‘freedom’ promoted by the tech community almost always turns out to be of the Darwinian variety.” via crookedtimber.org/2014/05/06/doe
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(counterpart to “nobody owes you a business model” is “that which lacks a business model may be very valuable”.)
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when people disagree on what these non-business-model "valuable" things are = sp. interest politics?
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is the existence of pharma patents “sp interest politics”? certainly ppl disagree w/it, has distributional effects
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to the extent it is a crony model, yes. To the extent not, no. So empirical question.
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no idea. Doesn't worry me on conceptual level. Terms of engagement of question clear, unlike artists.
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i’m not so sure. lots of qs re direction of patent-inspired pharma research, viagra knockoffs vs trop disease etc.
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ultimately, we have to value things, and if mkts don’t value things the way we like, an ∞ of potential mkt defns.
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\inf market definitions = "who created god?" type religious regression?

