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Jack Dorsey, co-founder of Twitter (now X) and Square (now Block), sparked a weekend’s worth of debate around intellectual property, patents, and copyright, with a characteristically terse post declaring, “delete all IP law.”

X’s current owner Elon Musk quickly replied, “I agree.”

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That's only true of the too few people that control too much resources

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The large majority of resources and facilities are owned by a small minority of wealthy individuals whose only goal is making money. People with more interest and passion in the field in question would continue to innovate as long as they had the resources to do so.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

People with more interest and passion in the field in question would continue to innovate as long as they had the resources to do so.

But...they don't. And if you removed IP law then they still wouldn't...

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Instead of explaining what you mean, you're just going to casually suggest they read a roughly 500 page book and hope that clears it up for them?