[ben_w]

1000 years would give me time to climb all the mountains, walk all the rivers, hike all the trails, and start a family, write those books, and learn to play those instruments, and still have time for a round-trip to another star.

[peteradio]

Why would the owners of this technology ever share it with you?

[ben_w]

Why does Gates give away so much money? Because the money itself makes no difference to his life any more.

Why do people leak documents? Because they think other people's secrets should be public information.

Why do we create ownership rights over information, such as patents and copyright, in the first place? To incentivise people to make more of those things. Why are these rights time-limited? Because nobody can, with a straight face, continue to claim they need any greater incentives than they already have.

Why go governments have Eminent Domain? Because the best interest of the people (or the nation) isn't the same as the best interest of the existing owners.

Why did the October Revolution and the Cuban Revolution happen? Because enough of the right people in the right place at the right time, decided that the old system of combined ruling-and-owning was bad.

[peteradio]

> Why does Gates give away so much money?

Flack for his epstein connection? Fear of remote illness? Lot's of ways to reflect your self-interest.

> Why do people leak documents? Because they think other people's secrets should be public information.

Because some people are noble. Some people are corrupted by remote interests.

> Why do we create ownership rights over information, such as patents and copyright, in the first place?

To incentivize publishing of discovery. There's no obligation to publish discoveries.

> Why go governments have Eminent Domain?

Is Eminent Domain justly applied?

> Why did the October Revolution and the Cuban Revolution happen?

Why did my apartment catch flees? I don't know but we had that shit bug bombed.

I think you and I both would be part of some revolution but we differ on the likely conclusion. I personally find a lust for eternal life (except for your fruity loins) repugnant, lest the whole worlds resources become fuel for a gigantic cock sucking machine.

[ben_w]

Do any of those alternative responses to my already-answered rhetorical questions change the fact that the fruits held by rich owners ended up on the tables of the poor?

I have literally no idea what you're doing with that metaphor in the last paragraph.

[peteradio]

What I'm saying is that if you don't have good reason to think some vastly wealthy thing isn't building a giant cock sucking device then you should assume it is in fact building supreme cock sucker and not you or anyone will get in the way.

[ben_w]

And?

What does this metaphor have to do with "will the rich let poor people have medical treatment"?

Given that the rich are, as I have demonstrated via the example of Gates, donating money to make sure the poor have medical treatment, along with all the other examples I gave of the rich being forced to help the poor even when they don't do so voluntarily.