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Originally Posted by Greg Anos
In the late Start trek universe, is seems to me they had some form of money - I think was called bar lathium. (Pardon my memory, I'm not a Trekkie.)
Your point about IP being consumed without being used up is very important. It marks the critical difference between IP and PP. PP has value because it is consumed with it being used up. Should that fact not be a reason for treating IP differently from PP?
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I'm a fan but not a Trekkie, so did a search and assumed
this page was good enough as a reference.
It might be a reason for not treating IP as a property at all, but only once we understand how it fails to self-annihilate due to the paradox of successfully behaving like a property for the last couple of centuries.