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  • If we are to abolish intellectual property, we might as well abolish all property (including land, patents and money as well

    That’s a bit messy.

    Patents are IP, with the caveat that they usually protect corporation over inventors.

    Money is a medium for measuring transactions. Hoarding it is very much like having people owing you a service.

    Land is more complex and needs for a society to clarify “property” first : property because of use or property in a more abstract way allowing others to use it for your benefit. This also implies a split between single-person usage (t’is my plot for I toil it for my family) and a more common use (10 persons toil the field which provides enough for 20).










  • how would this work in your utopia?

    Like it did in the US in the 1930-60s. Not gonna reinvent something that has proven useful and effective enough to create a superpower.

    Seems difficult to raise capital that way.

    Something something banks?

    Would you put more large cap projects in the hands of a government? Things like power plants, large buildings, etc?

    Power plants are a perfect example of infrastructure that need to be national and not private in order to be technically and financially efficient. Running them for profit either means you end up overlooking safety for profit (see David Besse) or hiking the selling price which is detrimental to both your industry and population.

    Large buildings are just not on the same financial scale or are just uselessly tall.