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by cwkoss 1630 days ago
Get in touch with whoever is paying the rat bastards for your ideas and try to sell your ideas yourself. If the value is in your ideas you should be able to steal business from them. If you can't then it indicates the economic value is in execution and not the ideas themselves: and you should build your execution skills so you can compete with the rat bastards.

EDIT: sorry if I seem harsh, but believe restricting the free flow of information is morally repulsive, so have a strong reaction to arguments that intellectual property needs more draconian protections.
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DoreenMichele 1630 days ago
Their execution sucks.

There are factors I'm not interested in trying to explain to an internet stranger hellbent on schooling me about how wrong I am about my life.

Don't get me wrong: I sincerely wish I had more people in my life who could help me poke holes in what I think of the problem space and find a path forward that works for me.

I think a lack of such constructive feedback is a major overlooked barrier to female business success. The problem is men seem to have access to such constructive feedback privately. Doing this publicly in this way is not optimal.

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DoreenMichele 1630 days ago
In reply to your edit, which I'm only just now seeing and can no longer edit my other comment:

I'm not arguing that. I run multiple blogs and I am very much on the record as wanting my blogs to remain free to read. I don't want paywalls or subscription newsletters and I no longer have ads on my sites.

I try to support them with tips and Patreon and I don't get enough money that way while other people clearly use the info and, in some cases, have a history of intentionally shafting me by not only not leaving tips, they also do not give me any credit nor promote my work.

I need money. People "value" what I do but don't want to pay me for it. Copyright and even the Nobel Prize are intended to solve the problem that it isn't actually true that "Ideas are nothing. Execution is everything."

Ideas are not nothing and actively screwing over people who generate new ideas -- like, say, Einstein -- is an excellent way to incentivize your best and brightest to tell the world "Fuck you. Got mine."

This is not in the best interest of humanity as a whole.

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