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If we're all caught in capitalism and inadvertently help market big business' products when discussing/suggesting them, shouldn't they be paying us for that marketing? (lemm.ee)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I mean, sure, you can always not talk about or suggest them, but so much of what you're dealing with day to day is probably from some big business. Also I am aware of the concept of universal basic income, but I've not really seen it framed/discussed from this sort of perspective, which imo at least is morbidly funnier.

At any rate, capitalists made this market where time's money and ya always gotta be hustling, so if they think they're owed free word o' mouth, well, who's all entitled then, eh?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

It invariably comes from exploiting the efforts of others to their deteriment

But that just isn't so. Sometimes it can be true, but not invariably so. If an inventor comes up with a new invention and then sells it to people who want to buy the invention for the price that he's selling it at (due to it providing them greater utility than the price he's charging - that's basic economics), then who has suffered any detriment in any of this? The inventor made money. The customers got the thing that they wanted. Nobody lost anything, and some people gained in the process.

In order for an exchange to be positive sum, both parties need to agree to the exchange. We do not get any choice in the exchange.

Again, simply not true. I can think of all sorts of scenarios where a forced exchange could wind up with both parties benefiting. That's not to say that any arbitrary forced exchange would be beneficial, of course, obviously not. But saying that it cannot happen can be easily disproved by counterexample.

This isn't just an "agree to disagree" thing. The people raging about how ChatGPT et al somehow "stole" their Reddit shitposts and now think they're owed money are trying to shut ChatGPT et al down. Huge swaths of intellectual property are sitting fallow because the people that own the rights aren't doing anything with it but darned if they'll let anyone else do something with it instead. It's a destructive mindset, and not just for the people feeling it. It harms society as a whole.