hey so how about we got rid of the profiteering glutton in between and gave the money directly to the researchers? :)
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SorryQuick@lemmy.ca 1 day agoYes, this is exactly what happens. Lone humans just can’t do much on their own, you need money to fund you, and money doesn’t fund anything that isn’t going to make them more money.
IAMgROOT@lemmy.wtf 1 day ago
SorryQuick@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
This could work, but would require a big societal change that goes beyond the level of “copyright bad” going on in this thread.
IAMgROOT@lemmy.wtf 1 day ago
laur would like a word with you
Squirrelanna@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
Innovation happened before money as a concept existed.
SorryQuick@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
You think? Because the vast majority of innovation (beyond the first few) was done by men who either had money (or priviliege, which in that time was the same thing) or men who were paid (or rewarded in some way) by those who did, resulting in the same thing. People who had no money/privilege and were not paid/sponsored did not have time to innovate, they had to spend their day trying to survive.
If you were “paid” by your king/warlord or whoever, you think they allowed you to just go do the same for their enemy right after?
Besides, I think we can all agree that innovation has been incredibly fast since capitalism came along, though whether it’s a cause or correlation is debatable. If your argument is that they came up with fire without copyright, then I’m afraid it’s not a very good one.