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    Brandon O’Brien, low on Action Points @therisingtithes.bsky.social

    I don’t know why this incenses me as much as it does, but it does:

    we very likely have a thousand plus Mozarts right now. But they make non-Western art in economically destitute conditions so they have to do other work to pay bills; if you cared, UBI’d be more important to you than going to space

    “I think in a lot of these endeavors we're very like-minded,” Bezos said of himself and Musk regarding getting humans into space.

    Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk say human population not nearly big enough: ‘If we had a trillion humans, we would have at any given time a thousand Mozarts’

    “I think in a lot of these endeavors we're very like-minded,” Bezos said of himself and Musk regarding getting humans into space.
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    rohessia @rohessia.bsky.social

    Reply to palomamcclain.bsky.social

    I agree with you on that. While our current system exists, I fully support creators using it to try to fight plagiarism and hold big corps accountable. It doesn't always work, but sometimes it does, and when it doesn't it at least exposes the hypocrisy.

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    rohessia @rohessia.bsky.social

    Reply to palomamcclain.bsky.social

    At least for me, it has gotten trickier to talk about copyright abolition since AI companies flipped the script. The giveaway is that they very much still want to keep their own work proprietary. That they're getting away with it is kind of the proof that copyright exists to serve capital

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    rohessia @rohessia.bsky.social

    Reply to palomamcclain.bsky.social

    I'm sorry, I'm struggling a little bit with the character limit, discussing extremes first because there's not space to cover every aspect in nuance. If you're being fairly compensated, and that's the norm in your industry, then abolishing copyright does seem like a cure w/out an ailment.

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    rohessia @rohessia.bsky.social

    Reply to palomamcclain.bsky.social

    If abolishing it would help corps, it would have been abolished already. Instead they've spent decades lobbying to strengthen it. Abolishing IP law, the police, or other corrupt systems without any replacement could cause problems, but as I understand it the goal is to imagine something better.

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    rohessia @rohessia.bsky.social

    Reply to palomamcclain.bsky.social

    I'm just some rando on the internet, my understanding could easily be wrong, but the fact that creators have to give up the rights to our own creations in order to eat is exactly the problem. It's a coercive system where those with the most money hoard IP and rentseek, to the detriment of artistry.

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    rohessia @rohessia.bsky.social

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    I want to abolish IP law like I want to defund the police. Not because I want society to ignore crime, or ignore plagiarism, but because the way we respond right now is broken. It fosters inequality and the concentration of wealth, not incidentally but by explicit design.

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    rohessia @rohessia.bsky.social

    Reply to palomamcclain.bsky.social

    Folks smarter than me explain it better, but think of how many times you've seen or heard of someone losing the rights to something they created because it was the only way to get it made. IP law exists to let corporations commodify culture, often at the direct expense of creatives.

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