- 24 Nov 2012 06:42
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So you believe you can own ideas?
taxizen wrote:Rothbardian - I not suggesting a new kind of government with taxes and classes of free riders very far from it. The funny thing about right-libertarians is that although the concept of the commons or commonwealth eludes you for manufactured things they do seem to accept and even insist on a commonwealth for ideas and information and by implication a commonwealth on natural resources (or else homesteading would be illegal). We could equally say from your argument that 'roads, lighthouses, etc' had been private property with no problem that also ideas information and natural resources had been private property with no problem.. You worry about free riders of manufactured goods but not free riders of information. And the rivalous / non-rivalous argument doesn't work really to distinguish between information and goods. A road is mostly non-rivalous, only when it hits capacity does it show signs of the quality of being rivalous. In contrast information can often be rivalous. For example: my company spends x amount of resources designing and testing a new and better widget which then sells for y amount which includes the information cost and then your company simply copies the design at virtually no cost and is able to put it on the market for less than y amount. Then that information is rivalous and you are a free rider.
So you believe you can own ideas?
"Anarchy is order, government is civil war" - Proudhon
7 minute guide to ending violent hierarchies (statism) -www.youtube.com/watch?v=Me2wQAQCip8
7 minute guide to ending violent hierarchies (statism) -www.youtube.com/watch?v=Me2wQAQCip8