Copyright is pirating our attention to boost a minority of creatives who have immense resource and political influence at the expense of the rest of us.
Life of author + 100 years is beyond the life of many. While the Constitution provides copyright for a limited time. The rest of any givens persons life is effectively “infinite amount of time”.
It’s just another Boomer Ponzi scheme, extracting as much as possible, trickling down as little as possible.
Americans have disassociated from reality into a world of propaganda narratives of corporations. This is just sad how little pushback there is to these obviously exploitative economic schemes that conveniently allow all the elders to funnel all wealth into their hands and control society’s agency.
P-hacking is allowed and encouraged outside physical science where getting stats of medicine and building a bridge wrong have obvious side effect
News media will whittle down their data set to get a result that only matters where cost of living is high, and there’s a tiny number of the workers overall.
Leads the innumerates in rural Somewhereville, Flyover, USA, to be all confused they don’t make SF salaries in the middle of nowhere.
I've heard modern US politics described like the following:
A rich man, a blue-collar worker, and an immigrant are sitting around a table. In the center of the table is a plate of a dozen cookies. The rich man takes 11 of them, then leans in and whispers to the blue-collar worker "hey, I think that guy wants your cookie."
The most insane are the science minded who understand it’s made up social gossip but role play sycophant nonetheless.
All our best thinkers, the propaganda goes. Their best idea for the economy is submit the status quo.
Their biology lives the experience every day that as a knowledge worker with little real world skill at providing for themselves, it’s actually they who are the most easily manipulated and kowtowed.
Life of author + 100 years is beyond the life of many. While the Constitution provides copyright for a limited time. The rest of any givens persons life is effectively “infinite amount of time”.
It’s just another Boomer Ponzi scheme, extracting as much as possible, trickling down as little as possible.
Americans have disassociated from reality into a world of propaganda narratives of corporations. This is just sad how little pushback there is to these obviously exploitative economic schemes that conveniently allow all the elders to funnel all wealth into their hands and control society’s agency.