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[QUOTE=Giggleton;1410148]It means when we have star trek style food replicators, do we still need copyright? With robots to do all the labor, do we still need wealth?
If we have star trek style food replicators and robots to do all our work we would not need copyright. Just remember that there will always be a few megalomaniacal pricks who need grandeur and power and to control everyone else, who need a sense of superiority.
The problem with utopias is that they transform us into sheep. We assume everyone else is well-intentioned and good, when in fact there are always wolves among us. When we become sheep, the wolves feast.
That is why capitalism works, in all its hideousness and irrationality. Capitalism turns us all into wolves, and wolves don't mess with each other. (Unless they are fighting over a foxy female wolf.)
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