1. economic models are about efficiently allocating limited resources to maximise prosperity.
2. Digital goods like software and media can be copied for free and benefit everyone once produced.
Yet capitalism struggles for decades with this, completely incapable of embrasing this digital superpower to multiply prosperity, artificially crippleling it in an effort to use it to multiply profits of a few, instead of the prosperity of many.
Think about all the software you currently use comrade! The one that respects your freedom the most, the one that embraces this superpower. Most of it is written and maintained completely outside of the coorporate structures of our capitalistic system.
This platform, Bitcoin and all the freedom and privacy preserving FOSS you enjoy does not exist because of capitalism, it exist despite of it.
I would say capitalism != corporatism and yes it exists despite of the latter
This has nothing to do with capitalism. The state is the problem here. Best example is NVK. He calls for anarchism, shits on communism and socialism all day long but then uses state violence against people who use "his" code so actually he is the one who is taking other peoples property. Steroid level hypocrisy.
Do you mean because the state enforces intelectual property rights? Or can you elaborate what exactly do you mean?
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