[tjwebbnorfolk]

So if someone invents a cure for all cancer that costs $1 to make, and they sell it for $2, in your world the value created by the inventor is only the profit from the vaccines that person *personally* manufactures themself? That's an insane and backward world that I'm glad we don't live in.

[Zambyte]

Hot take but people should be paid for working instead of ripping off people with cancer because they got to call dibs on intellectual "property".

[rayiner]

They have places like that. It’s called my dad’s village in Bangladesh. The only way to make money is through labor, just like you want. But it turns out that, without capital, the only labor there is to do is farming rice.

[tjwebbnorfolk]

"Ripping people off"? I think you'd enjoy living in the Soviet Union which existed in exactly this kind of backwardness.