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Originally Posted by gmw
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. |
It didn't self annihilate because society deterrmined there was a value in monetizing something that had no value under the standard rules of property. So rules were written to provide an incentive for creating new IP. Societies did not do this for moral reasons, but to get more IP. The reason to not extend IP for great lengths, it the blunt fact that dead people don't create.
Creating rules to monetize IP did not suddenly turn it into PP. It created a pseudo PP thing that is inherently a wasting asset (it goes to zero). There are other wasting asset that exist, such as options.
As to late Star Trek, I'm not certain that the "money free" economy really existed. If it did, why didn't everybody have their own interstellar spacecrafts? And why were there cargo ship? Why would anybody (other than maybe the Ferengi) want to waste their intellectual development on moving boxes around the galaxy? Food for thought.