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Old 05-19-2012, 05:10 AM  
gideongallery
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Originally Posted by raymor View Post
The very first sentence shows the author's moronism:


The best way to get parolee to invest in starting businesses is to guarantee that they lose their entire investment?!?!? I've seen stupid before, but that's way beyond stupid.

Then his "solution" is to have the government run publishing, programming, etc' because we all know the government does a great job running things. I know, we can put FEMA in charge of distributing the money. They always do a great job. You can go to the DPS office to get your music - only a three wait.
so your so stupid that you are misquoting a fundamental principle of economics.

You are actually arguing the exact opposite of what he is saying

copyright is a government granted monopoly

getting rid of copyright would BE getting the government out of the solution

and having the market define the solution.

market solution exist btw

sell stuff that is scarce

give away goods that are infinite, use them to build up the value of the scarce good so you can make as much money as possible.


http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/...f=home_popular

look at the top rewards there all scarce resources the artist time.
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