Just for fun, a little piece on copyright as socialism.
So how many meta-levels can we think about this at?
-There’s the whole question of the origin of the word “socialist,” I vaguely recollect that, like “liberal,” it used to be used by free marketers.
-There’s the discordance of recognizing that in some country’s mainstream media the term “socialist” is a positive.
-There’s the question of whether anyone who accepts copyright must therefore be a socialist.
-And then the question of whether markets in general, since they seem pretty good at giving people access to things, are “socialist.”
I’ll stop here.
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