[Tuukka] > I'm okay with artistic intellectual property being given away for free, > if there is basic income guarantee and no welfare traps. If we don't > want that, why would we even want public libraries?
Good point! Public libraries are an example of the government buying 1 copy of a book & letting many read it without further compensation to the publisher or author. This has, in Bertrand Russell's classic phrase, "all the advantages of theft over honest toil". Craig Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
