[tjic]

"At this point, the US should repeal the law that engineers need to be paid. People say it will result in unemployment.

Let's find out."

This is obvious a reckless idea.

I personally think that copyright should last maybe 10 years or so, so we're kind of on the same side of this.

...but arguing that hundreds of thousands of careers, billions of dollars of market cap, etc., should all be potentially destroyed because "I wonder what will happen? YOLO!" is a bad way to approach the debate.

[grahamburger]

There isn't a law that engineers need to be paid (or at least not any more than minimum wage.) I don't see how these are equivalent.

A more apt comparison would be "The US should make a law that all software must be released open source." Would we all be out of jobs if that happened? Maybe, but it's at least a debatable point.