Immune system response? In another analogy, Snowden showed us that the American gov + the NSA has literally monopolized their Corporate-DNA Crispr gene editing tool + corrupt laws spreading the disease of ‘Patents” and invention monopolizing ‘intellectual property’. It’s literally withholding the ability for people to take the steps they need to learn. Contrived scarcity [1]. I don’t understand how anyone can see this monopolizing system where Silicon Valley is the place of inherited privilege as anything besides the hypocritical shitshow that it is.
[1] "They assert a belief in ‘free markets’ and want us to believe that economic policies are extending them. That is untrue. Today we have the most unfree market system ever created [...]
How can politicians look into TV cameras and say we have a free market system when patents guarantee monopoly incomes for twenty years, preventing anyone from competing? How can they claim there are free markets when copyright rules give a guaranteed income for seventy years after a person’s death? How can they claim free markets exist when one person or company is given a subsidy and not others, or when they sell off the commons that belong to all of us, at a discount, to a favoured individual or company, or when Uber, TaskRabbit and their ilk act as unregulated labour brokers, profiting from the labour of others?
Far from trying to stop these negations of free markets, governments are creating rules that allow and encourage them."
Immune system response? In another analogy, Snowden showed us that the American gov + the NSA has literally monopolized their Corporate-DNA Crispr gene editing tool + corrupt laws spreading the disease of ‘Patents” and invention monopolizing ‘intellectual property’. It’s literally withholding the ability for people to take the steps they need to learn. Contrived scarcity [1]. I don’t understand how anyone can see this monopolizing system where Silicon Valley is the place of inherited privilege as anything besides the hypocritical shitshow that it is.
[1] "They assert a belief in ‘free markets’ and want us to believe that economic policies are extending them. That is untrue. Today we have the most unfree market system ever created [...]
How can politicians look into TV cameras and say we have a free market system when patents guarantee monopoly incomes for twenty years, preventing anyone from competing? How can they claim there are free markets when copyright rules give a guaranteed income for seventy years after a person’s death? How can they claim free markets exist when one person or company is given a subsidy and not others, or when they sell off the commons that belong to all of us, at a discount, to a favoured individual or company, or when Uber, TaskRabbit and their ilk act as unregulated labour brokers, profiting from the labour of others?
Far from trying to stop these negations of free markets, governments are creating rules that allow and encourage them."
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