Ironically by not advocating for IP you are depriving people from earning from their valuable mental labour.

If I invent something and spend time, effort and money into developing it, I should be allowed to be rewarded for that effort. If a competitor comes along and steals my idea without putting the wok in, I am absolutely being deprived of all the value of my hard work. That’s how someone can steal your intellectual property.

People’s views on IP boil down to: I want to pirate games. None of you are thinking about patents and trademarks and how they benefit people from having their work shat on. Lemmy is infuriating.

IP is obviously real in the same way money is real. Just because something isn’t physical doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist.

So if someone spend thousands of hours and a lot of money on researching a new invention that would benefit people, you don’t believe they should reap the rewards of said invention without a competitor stealing their idea? You’re basically advocating for people not to be paid for their work

Ideas certainly will become scarce products if people aren’t protected for having them.

Of course you can steal someone’s intellectual property. If you copy someone’s idea you are depriving that person from profiting from said idea and depriving them of income. There is a limit on how many people can profit from a given idea.

Intellectual property protects those who innovate against predatory practices. You are displaying naivety for who intellectual property is seeking to protect. By not enshrining IP in law you are literally stopping people from earning money from their mental labour.

If IP law didn’t exist why would anybody spend their time and money researching and creating new inventions if someone can come along and steal their idea?

All generations are entitled in different ways.

As someone who works in intellectual property it is very much real. Unless you think people shouldn’t receive rewards for their mental efforts in much the same way as physical labour?

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Wow I’ve never thought of that. Your thoughts are so insightful and original, if only I was as clever as you. Just make the government do stuff.

Absolutely, unfortunately those fuckers have dogpiled the shit out of me like I haven’t heard their shitty argument 100 times and as though they have something original and interesting to say. Puts you off saying anything that doesn’t exactly follow the hive mind.

Lemmy and Reddit don’t reflect normal demographics, opinions or social behaviour yet terminally online people seem to be under the illusion they do.

1000 instances with 3 people in them.

Point proven. I was just stating my opinion and people feel like they need to dogpile, despite the fact they actually agree with what I’m fucking saying.

You are massively original. It’s great that a meme can deflect any criticism of your consumerist habits. Now you can do whatever the fuck you want as well as feeing morally superior about doing it, because you are only doing it because the bad men in suits made you. Very clever.

If you think MAGA hate immigrants now you will be amazed at how much that would multiply in a free to use health service.

Real talk though, people love the NHS but I’m not sure it’s the best system for outcomes. Nor is the insurance whackery in the US. Mixed systems tend to perform better in terms of cost and health outcomes.

It’s not “some” people though is it? You’ve just been in leftist online bubbles too long.

I’ve never once advocated against robust public transport. What I’m against is people taking it too far to the extreme and punishing car owners like the little eco fascists they are.

Lemmy is just as circlejerky, overly sensitive, cliquey and dogpiley as Reddit.

We basically are getting rid slowly mate. They don’t tell you how it takes weeks to see a doctor, or how waiting times for operations are sometimes years.

A lot of hate there buddy. Just need to relax.

It would take me 4 hours in total every single day. Absolutely zero chance.

Plus no way I’m going to work covered in sweat every day. I have a duty to look presentable.