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by 9wzYQbTYsAIc 1342 days ago
As I understand it, that would be skirting the law and philosophical principles behind protectionism for intellectual labor.

If society doesn’t value commodity intellectual labor, then society may need to address the commoditization of intellectual labor, directly, through things like UBI / vocational rehabilitation, etc.

Similar arguments can be made about robots and the commoditization of manual labor.