In academia, your contributions are immediately open to anyone and everyone - and as a result, anybody who has anything to add immediately has access to the improved knowledge that all before them have provided.
Improvements are thereby immediate, and all you have to do is reference who you got your ideas and data from.
Academics keep going like rabbits, all trying to compete to be referenced in the knowledge that they are acknowledged for immediately making the world an objectively better place without any "20 year" waiting period to deny everyone the benefits of your contributions unless it comes only from you and your private limited resources only.
As such it would be better for everyone if the whole privatisation thing was dropped. To not drop it would be immoral.
i'm totes in favor of knowledge sharing
the things we have now thanks to open-source for example
tesla dude for example
released all of his tech papers
so anyone who wants to build an electric car can do it
the thing is that i think that people should also be able to make a living off of their work
when their work is intellectual
so like you're a philosopher and you write something pretty amazing
or a painter who made a really beautiful thing that everyone loves
and you want to sell some books so you can live off of that
and people selling pirated or knock-offs are sorta doing a shitty thing imo
so it's nice that that kind of work is private commercial use for 50 years
but there's a fair use clause for people who are not making money to be able to use it
and then after those 50 years it's completely free to share and use
the thing i'm most uncool with is the wanting to take over a person's actual business that they built
fuck that
take the knowledge and build your own
You're way overestimating the power of employees in this whole arrangement that we've currently got going on.
no i'm not
you're underestimating it
There's a tiny proportion of employees out there who cannot be bettered, and who could more or less dictate their wages if they wanted to remain employees. But what do they do? They either go it alone so all the surplus value they create doesn't just go to some rich guy who employs them, or they use the same capitalist mechanisms to take surplus value from their own employees in their own business.
all the power to us
i mean they
they work their asses off to learn stuff constantly and stay on top of the market
they're diligent and dependable and have good ethics
they get shit done
employers love them
they fucking earned it
we live in a society that provides equal rights
to anyone who wants to pursue studies or learn a trade
and form a career
there was a time when i couldn't go to school if i wanted, or own land
now i have the same rights as any man thank fuck
and before you start taking the pains of the poor people
i'm from the fucking third world
the house i grew up in had a tin roof
my parents toughed it for years so i could go to school
it is in everyone's power to be that person
there is a tiny proportion of that because people are shit
most people on the planet are doing the bare minimum that they have to do to get by
hierarchies form naturally
not because of classes
but because people are different
the pareto principle
you know this shit
don't make me type it
In reality, the vast majority of everyone is replaceable, especially when it comes to the vast majority of tasks that NEED doing that don't require much skill or experience - which the vast majority of people don't have anyway.
If everyone was employable, employed and with plenty of prospects then your mechanism would have a power balance.
The fact that there's huge variation in skill and experience means this will never be the case because the vast majority of workers will always be replaceable. They can't simply go somewhere else without significant competition, where half the people will always struggle at the bottom, and the threat of NOT offering your services for less and less means zero income instead of accepting a punishingly low one. Again, this goes for tasks that NEED doing, or at least it would be better for them to be done, or the positions wouldn't be opened in the first place.
see the above
in fact everyone is replaceable
but the pool of the good people to pick from is very small
so when a company finds a good employee they hold on to them
we have a system in place that encourages good ethics, hard work, and efficiecy
why the fuck would you want to mess with that?
This is compared to a system where even more people face the ridiculous life conditions of having zero income in an undeveloped country - so anything's better than that.
Yay for Capitalism being better than absolute poverty - absolutely. I am grateful for this.
don't forget that it is capitalism that is for all effects eliminating absolute poverty from the world
it's not like it's something they put there to replace poverty
it's the thing that is making it go away
so yay for capitalism indeed
and yay for free market