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by fartsucker69 1453 days ago
creating nontrivial intellectual property usually takes a lot of work, work that has to be paid otherwise it could literally not be done, i.e. the great people who create those works could attempt maybe one such work and in most modern cases they would not get close to finishing it before they literally run out of money to pay for rent and food.

the system around intellectual property has some issues but some form of protection / ownership needs to be there.

if you had your wish and the concept of IP was treated as shunned and taboo you would quickly live in a world with vastly diminished amount and quality of art, science and technology.