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[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (8 children)

The same reason a movie theater owner can't show Pee Wee's Big Adventure every weekend. Value is derived from exclusivity. Exercising your "rights" to a work means preventing anyone from having access to the work unless you are paid when and how you want.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 months ago (4 children)

Capitalism manufactures scarcity. Even when we have plenty, capitalism must create limits on the sharing of free resources

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago (3 children)

This is what I keep telling people, we already live in a post-scarcity world... We just can't reap the benefits because Capitalism forces us to pretend we don't.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

It all comes down to "well, sure we might have plenty, but if not for capitalism how could we decide how to divide it?"

But any solution has to promote self-interest as a virtue and can't take things away from people who currently own them, and also must conform to a bunch of myths we have about "how the world works"

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