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by gentleman11 926 days ago
Jefferson wasn’t scrambling to pay his mortgage with those ideas. See also: Amazon and open source, why should Amazon be the only one able to make a profit? If the ideas have no value, then all that matters financially is manufacturing and infrastructure
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Obsolete_occupations

Should we protect all of those too, at great cost to the rest of society?