I mean, I agree with this point, that our current copyright system is glaringly broken in favor of corporations, but I worry about how your “hamburgers and smoking” metaphor might have unintended implications. Depending on someone’s level of poverty, time constraints, and location, not eating McDonalds might actually be synonymous with starving.
Similarly, smoking is a substance addiction, and victims’ minds are neurologically not in a place to logically consider quitting.
This isn’t a “fragile world view”, this is a matter of one’s understanding of someone else’s life being orthogonal to reality.
For instance, I personally don’t think copyright/patents/IP protection (beyond an attribution requirement similar to the BSD licenses) should exist at all, but under capitalism it’s the only way artists don’t starve, so I wouldn’t advise abolishing it without fixing our societal support structures first.
I wasn’t using hamburgers and smoking as a metaphor for copyright, I was going on a rant about peoples lifestyles, particularly those of my peers, who aren’t poor. This rant is very literal. I’m just letting out my frustrations.
I mean, I agree with this point, that our current copyright system is glaringly broken in favor of corporations, but I worry about how your “hamburgers and smoking” metaphor might have unintended implications. Depending on someone’s level of poverty, time constraints, and location, not eating McDonalds might actually be synonymous with starving.
Similarly, smoking is a substance addiction, and victims’ minds are neurologically not in a place to logically consider quitting.
This isn’t a “fragile world view”, this is a matter of one’s understanding of someone else’s life being orthogonal to reality.
For instance, I personally don’t think copyright/patents/IP protection (beyond an attribution requirement similar to the BSD licenses) should exist at all, but under capitalism it’s the only way artists don’t starve, so I wouldn’t advise abolishing it without fixing our societal support structures first.
I wasn’t using hamburgers and smoking as a metaphor for copyright, I was going on a rant about peoples lifestyles, particularly those of my peers, who aren’t poor. This rant is very literal. I’m just letting out my frustrations.