[hammyhavoc]

Do people own property? Do they even have money? Do you own a license to your software? If it is all just on paper or on a screen, it's just numbers. The entire system is make-believe. If you choose not to believe in intellectual property, you must also acknowledge that other aspects of capitalism also do not actually exist and is a shared delusion.

However, the shared delusion makes the world go round as-is.

OK, "copyright bad", "intellectual property rights bad", so what's the alternative?

[matheusmoreira]

> If you choose not to believe in intellectual property, you must also acknowledge that other aspects of capitalism also do not actually exist and is a shared delusion.

I already do. Dollars? It's just paper, not even backed by anything. People believe in it so it has value for the time being. It will literally go to zero if people stop believing in it though.

It was hard for me to accept these truths. I don't post them here lightly.

> However, the shared delusion makes the world go round as-is.

People who choose to believe in delusions don't get to complain when reality inevitably comes creeping in.

> OK, "copyright bad", "intellectual property rights bad", so what's the alternative?

Post scarcity. Automate everything and provide abundance, eliminating the need for an economy to begin with.