> Who is going to do the jobs that need doing but are not so pleasant - like washing dishes? One of the rare places both these groups agree! The hardcore libertarians who give talks at the Mises Institute know that intellectual property is a state enforced distortion of the free market, and all the communists and anarchists know that if you can offer knowledge to help others, you should not lock it down. For every business person who only innovates because of the monopoly profits our current society offers, there are 100 engineers and business owners who just want to offer the next greatest thing, and who see the potential profit in being first to market. So it is a self reinforcing change to society, and one where I believe the rate of innovation would be much higher. But if we also make society free to live (which is now cheaper without patents and copyright keeping prices high), then creators and engineers do not have to fear for their livelihood. This would also allow MUCH FASTER growth in poorer nations, since they would not have to import expensive goods from wealthy nations but could make their own clones. And every person on earth can grow up with access to a library of every book ever digitized.ĮDIT: I should add, that if we did not patent and copyright everything, then costs would go down because generics would rule the market.
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And artists can create their art and offer it for free to everyone. I actually think the solution is to build a society where food and shelter and clothing and internet are free. But I think the solution is not to stop offering giant free libraries to everyone. Of course, in our current society we can’t offer this to everyone or artists would starve. And at night, after work, I’m making a little time for reading again. But finally with library genesis I can download whatever and it doesn’t cost me money or take up any space. Normal libraries aren’t quite right for me because I don’t read promptly and feel bad holding something I am not reading when others might want to check it out. A lot of the books I actually own physical copies because I bought them thinking I would read them, and then never got around to them and I now have many boxes of books in the garage. It’s amazing being able to just download and read a high quality epub of whatever book I have wanted to read. I dug up the old e-reader and I’m starting to read again.
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But recently I discovered library genesis, which is full of pirated books in the vein of sci-hub. I bought an e-reader in 2014 and it has sat in a bin basically the whole time.
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