One(world)-upsmanship
Me: This is the type of quality Ilzo we have come to recognise the world-over.
Me: *ie: In the US and the Caribbean.
@ilzolende: Ehh, the US is the entire world, and adding the Caribbean adds a third world, so that’s enough world for me.
Me: Technically, the Caribbean includes the second and third worlds, because Cuba is still Socialist.
@ilzolende: Ooh!
@ilzolende: We have all 3 worlds!
@ilzolende: That is Most World.
Me: See, my people have twice as many worlds as yours! Take that!
Ilzo Kiefer: Only because you’re dirty commies.
Alison @sinesalvatorem: Truuue
Ilzo Kiefer: Okay, okay, commies who often shower multiple times per day.
Ilzo Kiefer: But still commies.
Alison @sinesalvatorem: Hey! I was about to make that same joke!
Ilzo Kiefer: What are you going to do? Have your communist buddies expropriate it?
Alison @sinesalvatorem: You do realise that
stealingexpropriating my jokes is COMMUNISM, right?Alison @sinesalvatorem: Dammit!
We nordics are all a bunch of pirates and don’t believe that information may be owned so I’m not stealing || expropriating anything, I’m simply copying it and spreading it. In fact, I’m actually doing you favor because your reps are so going to get bumped by exposing these posts to as wide an audience as possible, so if anything I’m creating value to you totally for free (which is COMMUNISM, you COMMUNISTS who use my value, which I’ve created, for free like the COMMUNISTS you are!), but I’m not seeking any compensation, just a bump to my own rep corresponding to the value I’ve created to everyone.
Information wants to be free as in “speech”, and inspecting the supply/demand graphs suggests that information wants to be free as in “beer” too because it has an inverse price/quantity relationship. We can have one Tesla model S if we pay $100k, but to buy a million model S’s asap we’d need to pay way more than $100k for each because we’d need to reallocate a lot of stuff on the margin; but if I was willing to supply one piece of information to one person for $100k, I’d supply it for a million for $0.1 per purchaser because copying costs are less than the price of keeping track of them. This suggests that societal value will be maximized by eliminating monopolies in information (expect information that produces negative externalities like leaked nudes) and rewarding the producers of information in some other way than having users of information pay for it.
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