Based Bagel @[email protected]

Disney is so much more than a company, it's peak American culture.

The IP of Disney may have been entertaining but they also contained a lot of wisdom and life lessons to inspire and teach the next generation.

It's a shame they're falling off now but nothing gold can stay.

(I know I sound like a Disney shill but I swear they didn't pay me to write this. They just hooked me at a young age.)

@shortstories @[email protected]

>Post Scarcity Economics

That is an oxymoron.
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Economics is BASED on the allocation of scarce resources.

We live in a world of scare resources so your premise is flawed.

@[email protected] @shortstories

> suppression of new ideas, technologies, medications, and innovations.

Yes but this is only temporary and I'm willing to make that concession.

You're right in theory but the problem is you don't account for human nature.

If you don't incentivize the behavior you want people wont do it.

Good ideas that can save lives will be held back because people will have no way to protect their ideas or profit from them.

@shortstories @[email protected]

>Copyright laws should be removed

NO. Once again just because people abuse laws doesn't mean the solution is to remove said law.

>We should not have money

Stop trolling me

>The motive to write a book is to give people good ideas so society functions better

That's easy for you to say because you don't run a business or have other people depending on you for their livelihood.

Spend 10+ years building a product and see how you feel when it gets stolen.

@shortstories @[email protected]

You're conflating tangible with intangible goods.

A more realistic example is:

You spend months writing a book.

It releases and it sells like hotcakes.

Ripoff Mcgee sees your book and uses AI to say the SAME shit with the same references and sells it.

Ripoff Mcgee can spend WAY more than you on marketing since he spend ZERO time writing/researching.

Because of this he gets invited on national TV and people think of him when it comes to YOUR ideas.

@[email protected] @shortstories

> It leads to rapid innovations with no strings attached.

That depends on the industry. Certain industries require MASSIVE $$ in R&D.

They are able to recoup that cost by the temporary monopoly created by IP.

As a business owner there is no way in HELL I'm footing the research bill for a new product so so some wise guy can undercut me 3 days later.

Just because patent trolls/big pharma suck doesn't mean we should throw the baby out with the bathwater

@UncleIroh I'm convinced plastic surgery is a way to finesse the mentally ill's disposable income.

She went from a solid basic bitch to looking like a bad midjourney output.

@[email protected] @shortstories

Hold on now IP laws suck but they are pretty important.

If anybody can rip off an idea you spent 10 years developing it would lead to a stagnation in new discoveries.

Everything else makes perfect sense though.

Being broke can stress you out to the point of mental illness.

Me 5 years ago: *tire goes flat*

OMG am I going to have to skip a meal or not get gas to pay for my tire? Why me, why now?!

I'll call 5 places and see who has the best price.

Present me: *tire goes flat*

Ah well, that sucks. I'm gonna put on my spare and go to the closest tire shop.

It's kind of a pain but hey, what can you do? what's important is I'm safe.

Money doesn't buy happiness, but it buys freedom + peace of mind.

@[email protected]

>Slavery is tolerable to you

You misunderstood me.

To clarify: Slavery is NOT TOLERABLE to me at all and if I had the power I'd stop it immediately.

This post is about me wrestling with the realization that buying cheap Chinese products is tacit complicity in slavery.

Hope that clears things up.

@ButtWorldsMan

>if you're predisposed to getting raped by the poke, a bit of vitamin C (specifically only that) won't save you.

You're probably right but I thought it was an observation worth mentioning

>Rectify vitamin deficiencies

Good point.

Our standard of living is only possible by Chinese kids working like slaves with no social mobility.

While I don't think it's right, if they were paid a fair wage + benefits I could no longer maintain my standard of living.

So while I still don't morally agree with it, I tacitly accept this injustice as I cannot afford a $3,000 smartphone.

I rationalize this in my brain by not being wasteful or lazy so their efforts go to waste. but TBH I'm probly kidding myself.

Food for thought.

The only jabbed person in my inner circle with no complications takes 1,000mg of Vitamin C every day.

I have no idea if this means anything but if there someone vaxxed you care about it's worth trying as vitamin c is dirt cheap.

>the Titanic was most likely sunk deliberate

I heard about that!

I find it convenient a bunch of powerful opponents get taken out in one fell swoop.

@Zerglingman @shortstories

>we have fought on the wrong side of this war.

Yes and no.

IMO there is no "wrong" or right side there are just powerful people with different interests and sadly the freedom lovers got the short end of the stick.

But we can still salvage this personally. Check out the book "How I found freedom in an unfree world" for ideas. (Skip the ancap stuff)

@shortstories I understand there was alot of covid propaganda but Lincoln DEFINITELY existed.

Do have any idea how hard that would be to get so many people to make false accounts of the same fictional man?

Doubting everything is as unreasonable as being a normie believing everything.

@doggel @Scubbie Thanks
i needed to heart that

@shortstories @UncleIroh @ugly_bastard_reborned

>This was older than in the counterfeit Jewish

I'm impressed how you twisted my words and tried to sneak the jows in there but i'm SO TIRED of talking about them.

So Goodnight everyone! Sleep tight and don't let the Hebrews bite!

@UncleIroh @ugly_bastard_reborned @shortstories

>Don't try and wriggle out of it

I can't wriggle out of something I was never in.

My knees are quite soggy but I'm innocent on all other counts.

You on the other hand...

Are a moderate whom I refuse to debate with about people who rhyme with juice.