{"id":2521,"date":"2005-05-15T18:50:10","date_gmt":"2005-05-15T22:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.soulhuntre.com\/items\/date\/2005\/05\/15\/you-owe-me-your-brain\/"},"modified":"2005-05-15T18:50:10","modified_gmt":"2005-05-15T22:50:10","slug":"you-owe-me-your-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/2005\/05\/15\/you-owe-me-your-brain\/","title":{"rendered":"You owe me your brain!"},"content":{"rendered":"

At Slashdot,
\n
\nyour down home stupidity channel<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n

"This is an excellent point. If anyone should be running business (or
\n\tsociety in general), it should be the scientists, artists and academics.
\n\tThey are typically not blinded by avarice in the sameway that the average
\n\tbusinessman is. Profit is useful, but it should never be the main motivation
\n\tfor doing something. The main motivation should be the further development
\n\tof mankind so that the totality of the species may expand beyond the
\n\tconfines of our primitive solar system. The improvements to our cultures
\n\tshould not only be in the technology arena, but also in social and
\n\tbehavioral aspects. The goal should be to stamp out fear, greed and
\n\tselfishness and replace them with a thirst for knowledge, a deeper
\n\tunderstanding of the benefits of cooperation over competition, and a strong
\n\tawareness of our responsibility to those around us." –
\n\tquote
\n\tin context<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Did you ever wonder how this sort of ignorance gets around? It’s because it
\npasses for intellectualism these days. The idea that the pursuit of profit is
\nbad, and that competition is bad…. or that those who make money are doing it
\nfor the money exclusively. We have now within the "online" community the
\nignorant revival of communism. The belief that no one shoudl own anything, that
\nno one has thought of anything themselves and that no one should be able to (in
\neffect) benefit from advances.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

This is the old "each according to his ability, to each according to his
\nneed" crap. If you spend the money, spend the will, take the time to create
\nsomething (say a new type of program) according to idiots like
\neno2001<\/a> you should have no
\nprotection. The instant you create this via your own talent and will they should
\nbe able to take it, copy it and sell it as there own… with no recourse from
\nyou and no reason for them to have to pay you.<\/p>\n

\n

"Sadly, we have let our society be taken over by the common criminal’s
\n\tdesire for material wealth with no reasonable limits. Fortunately, not
\n\teveryone thinks this way and many of us attempt to rise above that archaic
\n\tmode of thinking. We see the value in cooperation and how making top dollar
\n\tdoes little to further the species. Capitalism has served it’s purpose, but
\n\tit is not scaling well as the means of information production becomes
\n\tubiquitous. IP laws and software patents are not there to protect you unless
\n\tyou are a big enough software business to afford the lawyers. This is not
\n\tright or just. Source code is merely the analogue to a recipe, the
\n\tcompilers, linkers, etc… are the cooking utensils. No one has set out to
\n\trestrict what you can cook, so why should they restrict what you write for
\n\tyour computer? Is it illegal to make a hamburger at home? Did McDonald’s set
\n\tout to keep people from stealing the hmburger from their virttual monopoly?
\n\tNo. So all this talk of software patents is pure rubbish and legal tacticsto
\n\tkeep the power inthe richest hands. The time has come to destroy this system
\n\tof control." –
\n\tquote
\n\tin context<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

So if your talented then you should work hard and create something – so that
\nall those who lacked the skills, intelligence or will to create it can steal it
\nfrom you, all the while calling you a "criminal" and evil. Give them the results
\nof your labor, and the better at it you are the more they will despise you. Yet
\nalmost every advance in society worth mentioning that lifted man from beast to
\nmaster of his environment was the result of some "common criminals desire for
\nwealth" – someone who had the intelligence to see a need and the ability to
\nsupply the thing needed.<\/p>\n

\n

"All wealth is produced by somebody and belongs to somebody. And "the
\n\tspecial virtue that enabled capitalism to outstrip all prior economic
\n\tsystems" was freedom (a concept eloquently absent from the Britannica’s
\n\taccount), which led, not to the expropriation, but to the creation of
\n\twealth.." – from "Capitalism, the Unknown Ideal" by Ayn Rand, page 15.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Contrast this to the desire of the parasite to effectively steal what is
\nyours, in this case your invention, your idea and the result of your effort.
\nWhy? Because he feels left behind, left out. And because he wants to remind you
\nthat, somehow, you owe him the results of your brain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At Slashdot, your down home stupidity channel. "This is an excellent point. If anyone should be running business (or society in general), it should be the scientists, artists and academics. They are typically not blinded by avarice in the sameway that the average businessman is. Profit is useful, but it should never be the main […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":53198,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[278],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2521"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2521\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}