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AntiBullyRanger@ani.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

Because the monopolies that capitalism creates, created copyright in the first place…. The monopoly on who gets to form corporations or not is a feature of capitalism that copyright or not strengthens. If you cease copyright altogether, capitalists will still abuse others because the government lobbied them so.

Capitalism ≠ Laissez-faire free markets, but government owning the rights on who gets to issue bonds and debts. You can’t form a corporation without their expressed permission, if not, you loose your status as a corporation.

Copyright was expressely created to control the free flow of information, so the King and his nobility could amass wealth + control. It keeps working precisely because folks want a class society, wherein the law protects them, but punishes everyone else.

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Fredthefishlord@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

You can’t form a corporation without their expressed permission, if not, you loose your status as a corporation.

This is just wrong. It’s not permission. You submit to their bureaucracy, yes, but that’s guaranteed if you submit your paperwork correctly, it’s not a permission.

Capitalism ≠ Laissez-faire free markets, but government owning the rights on who gets to issue bonds and debts.

This is not completely accurate. It implies it’s a prior approval situation instead of a post-revocable situation which while similar are notably different. The government cannot revoke those privileges arbitrarily. There is rules for them, but those rules do not restrict who does so, they restrict how it’s done.

Speaking broadly, a system where the king issues money, and controls said money, is not capitalism anymore than socialism is communism. When nobility exist and can arbitrarily set rules and taxes, that is not capitalism. That isn’t to say either are good, they’re both terrible systems. But the thing you described with a king is strictly not capitalism, it’s a different evil.

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- AntiBullyRanger@ani.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  
  government cannot revoke those privileges arbitrarily.
  
  Ok, it’s just ignorance on your part.
  
  Speaking broadly, a system where the king issues money, and controls said money, is not capitalism
  
  Cripes, your comprehension is just appalling. Next your going to sell me your follicles for your fealty to copyright governance with your level of dissonance
  
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  - Fredthefishlord@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    The fact that you linked 3 links that don’t counter what I said is impressive.
    
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    AntiBullyRanger@ani.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    It does, if u comprehend ðt private ownership of ð means of trade means exactly ð Diet made ðmselves proprietors of ð font, & want ð developer to pay rent. But since you think ð yen was created by Monotype, then Laissez fair your font away, dissonant trader.
    
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