Re: Debate discussion: intellectual property in an AC land
I agree 100%. The means to discover ideas are very very scarce. De-incentivizing the intellectual capital makes those resources even more scarce. This results in less ideas being discovered. That's a little over-simplified, and some of the ACists will still dispute the utility of IP. WRT to scarcity, I don't particularly care whether the ideas themselves are non-scarce. But I'm a utilitarian. You'll get a lot of "So?" comments from moral ACists.
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