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Originally Posted by DawnFalcon
Only if you take the value that there is no inherent value in the arts and creative disciplines. Equating the betterment of society with purely economic aims is... very American (no offence, but it is). Certainly not in English society at the time of the Statute of Anne.
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Yeah,
ri-ight. Because, after all, no one's ever cared a thing about goofy ideas like "economy" except... Americans.
But that's understandable. After all, Americans
invented money. It was Ben Franklin's idea. Then he told John Adams, and he went and invented the bank. And from then on, we introduced the entire planet to the concept of making more money, primarily by stealing it from those who were weaker than us. Absolutely nothing has value in America, unless it's economic value. And we're sooo frustrated that the rest of you countries haven't figured out how to properly waste your money like we do... heck, you can't even give it a proper name!
So.
Now that we've got the pointless copyright-debating and nationality-bashing out of the way, maybe you could get back to the topic at hand...