[pp.int.general] Artificial Scarcity
Boris Turovskiy
tourovski at gmail.com
Sun Nov 8 20:22:09 CET 2009
Andrew Robinson wrote:
>
> I've found that the more conservative and capitalist your audience is,
> the more quickly they seem to understand the issues surrounding
> artificial scarcity and the more inclined they are to agree that when
> the unit cost of duplication is zero, we are in brand new economic
> territory and new business approaches and indeed new laws are needed.
>
Yes. And both the amount and the quality of "capitalist" (essentially
meaning economical/libertarian) argumentation against copyrights is much
higher than those of the "anticapitalist" ones.
Best regards,
Boris
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