Don't forget that legally we count corporations as people, and corporations can live on indefinitely.
Originally copyright provided a monopoly for 14 years, plus one optional 14 year extension.
willington
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Capitalism.
Basically entities flush with wealth do not make their decisions out of a sense of economic survival.
Capitalism is all about brutal survival for the lower classes and for the upstarts without any background.
At the same time capitalism is all about a decision making process that is leisurely, capricious, and forgiving for the aristocratic upper classes.
If the company is sufficiently large (don't know if reddit qualifies, but my past employers have, so speaking from experience here), their own upper management is robbing the company on the inside every day when they make deals with contractors by taking kickbacks as opposed to what benefits the company. Make no mistake, all the upper management that is sufficiently aristocratic are looking out for their personal interests instead of the company's. In other words the same mentality of personal gain at all costs that supposedly drives the creation of some of the companies is also their undoing. "Greed is good" capitalism eats itself. Large ultra consolidated/merged corps are every bit as bureaucratic and internally Machiavellian as any government can hope to be. Their very existence is a tax we all pay and we don't get a vote about how these corporate fiefdoms run both themselves and us.
Reddit at this point is a very important and well backed propaganda tool, the backers can afford to pay their CEO and there is no hurry to make profits, and they have plenty of time and resources for every manner of business mistake.
Profit is theft.
Economic rent is theft.
Taxes are not theft.
It all depends on what you measure and what you don't.
Selective measuring of the economy will let you say whatever you want.
"More jobs!!!11!!1!1!!!1111!1!1!!!!!"
"More precarity and high turnover, high pressure, shit conditions, shit pay, shit flexibility, shit benefits, no real pension commitment, underemployment."
Even if all the measures do exist, you don't have to report them if they go against the narrative.
I don't like the idea of calling it a non-payment when receiving compensation in the form of valuable assets in addition to money.
Receiving stocks or gold bricks or houses or blow jobs, or anything else of value, is payment, and should be taxed as such.
Do you know why the pirates had democratic rule?
There's always money/wealth in the economy. If the workers don't have it, someone else does. Find where the money is, and tax it. Then redistribute.
It's not a hard concept. It's a question of the political will. We know what to do, but will we do it?
Copyright infringement was never stealing to begin with. If I steal your pencil, you are no longer in posession of it. If I copy or download your pencil, we both have a copy, and you are not deprived of your property.
It's not simple gas, as I understand it. It's a living being with a plasmoid anatomy. It may even be intelligent. It's alive, with its own subjective experiences, memories, goals, evolution, etc. The claim here is not at all as prosaic as you make it sound.
Now, is that what all of UAP are? Personally, I don't prefer overly physicalistic explanations for the phenomena. This sounds like an attempt at 'taming the weird', as it were. Still, it's also an admission that our scientific establishment may have been blind to forms of life that were always with us but went unrecognized. It's a baby step for them.
He doesn't need to sell, no.
It's collateral for a low interest loan.
Look up "buy borrow die" on a search engine.
The original blocks my vpn exit node. And I have a browser extension that disables the paywall.
I despise the paywalls but aggressive anti dos measures are just as bad.