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Originally Posted by GlenBarrington
Most urban Americans earn their living from some sort of intellectual property. Few of us actually MAKE anything you can hold in your hand any more. Paying others for THEIR intellectual property is a form of enlightened self interest. We consider people like you, a common thief. Sorry for being so blunt, but that's true for a significant number of Americans.
I suspect that as the economy of your country develops, your peoples attitudes towards intellectual property will change as well.
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So, in other words, Americans have found a new way to scam the rest of the planet: intellectual "property." You can no longer dominate the world via industrial production, so you (i.e. American capital) plan to dominate it by controlling key "IP" in crucial sectors such as the military, medicine (think of patents used to profit off the suffering of millions in the third world), and communications. Your lifestyle has been subsidized by the blood of countless other people inside and outside of your country, a country founded on the conquest of land from indigenous people, the enslavement of Africans, and the exploitation of its own working class, and loot plundered from abroad. You have no right to speak to anyone of thievery.