This is another symptom of the sickness in our current implementation of Intellectual Property law. IP is being allowed to eat all other forms of ownership, even as whatever is left is being eroded away.
I'm not sure where I heard "In 50 years nobody will own anything, and everyone will be happy about it." to which I respond with two possibilities: 1. We are happy; great. 2. We are unhappy; and able to do fuck all about it because we own nothing.
Maybe we should sacrifice option 1 to dodge option 2.
Or 4. We are "happy", but only because expressing unhappiness is against the TOS and in response you are banned from society with as little fanfare as google can ban your account for no reason.
I'm not sure where I heard "In 50 years nobody will own anything, and everyone will be happy about it." to which I respond with two possibilities: 1. We are happy; great. 2. We are unhappy; and able to do fuck all about it because we own nothing.
Maybe we should sacrifice option 1 to dodge option 2.