Sorry, but you are brainwashed if you think that there are real private property rights in the United States. There is some property related stuff in the Bill of Rights, but I challenge you to find me any law or anything from the Bill of Rights or anywhere that says explicitly that you have the right of private property. What do you think zoning laws are? Just one example. Others include current drug seizure laws. How about taxes. I currently have about 40 percent of the money I make go to the government, and that is totally involuntary. I don't even own the money I make...the government tells me how much I can keep. How about property tax. If I own the property why do I pay the government???? We DO NOT live in a capitalist society. Here is a book for you to try: Capitalism the Unknown Ideal by Ayn Rand. Or if you prefer fiction, try Atlas Shrugged.
By the way I did not learn this in any school, and I went to a real university and got a Computer Science degree and graduated Summa Cum Laude, so I don't appreciate the remarks about my intelligence.
First of all I don't appreciate being called a fuckwit. That is not nice, and not appropriate. I know you have a hard time when other people don't share your opinions, but be at least be civil.
Second you are the one that needs to read up on capitalism. I never said our system in America was good, and I am far from being brainwashed. We DO NOT live in a capitalist society. We live in a socialist one. Any time government interferes in the world of business, be it regulation or bail outs (subsidization), that is socialism plain and simple. I've got a term for you to look up: laissez-faire. That is what true capitalism is, and the world has never seen it. Big business would never tell me that this is what capitalism is because they love to manipulate government.
Offtopic: Also if you were saying Communism (extreme socialism) is more fucked up than Capitalism. I would be interested in what you think is a better system.
Yeah I just love all that great music that came out of Communist Russia and China, don't you? Do you really think that we would be better off if we had a communist government controlling the distribution of music??? You think that they wouldn't do something like this.
Also remember that the music industry is getting a lot of help from the government in being able to screw us with the DMCA, etc. So you can't really blame all this on capitalism. Also if you don't like it, you have a choice in a capitalist society to buy music from a label that doesn't put copy protection on their CDs. If you want it to stop, don't buy the CDs, and tell your friends not to.
If we lived in a communist society the government would copy-protect the music and we wouldn't have a choice to buy it from someone else. Course it wouldn't matter because the music would suck anyway.
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Sorry, but you are brainwashed if you think that there are real private property rights in the United States. There is some property related stuff in the Bill of Rights, but I challenge you to find me any law or anything from the Bill of Rights or anywhere that says explicitly that you have the right of private property. What do you think zoning laws are? Just one example. Others include current drug seizure laws. How about taxes. I currently have about 40 percent of the money I make go to the government, and that is totally involuntary. I don't even own the money I make...the government tells me how much I can keep. How about property tax. If I own the property why do I pay the government???? We DO NOT live in a capitalist society. Here is a book for you to try: Capitalism the Unknown Ideal by Ayn Rand. Or if you prefer fiction, try Atlas Shrugged.
By the way I did not learn this in any school, and I went to a real university and got a Computer Science degree and graduated Summa Cum Laude, so I don't appreciate the remarks about my intelligence.
First of all I don't appreciate being called a fuckwit. That is not nice, and not appropriate. I know you have a hard time when other people don't share your opinions, but be at least be civil.
Second you are the one that needs to read up on capitalism. I never said our system in America was good, and I am far from being brainwashed. We DO NOT live in a capitalist society. We live in a socialist one. Any time government interferes in the world of business, be it regulation or bail outs (subsidization), that is socialism plain and simple. I've got a term for you to look up: laissez-faire. That is what true capitalism is, and the world has never seen it. Big business would never tell me that this is what capitalism is because they love to manipulate government.
Offtopic: Also if you were saying Communism (extreme socialism) is more fucked up than Capitalism. I would be interested in what you think is a better system.
Yeah I just love all that great music that came out of Communist Russia and China, don't you? Do you really think that we would be better off if we had a communist government controlling the distribution of music??? You think that they wouldn't do something like this.
Also remember that the music industry is getting a lot of help from the government in being able to screw us with the DMCA, etc. So you can't really blame all this on capitalism. Also if you don't like it, you have a choice in a capitalist society to buy music from a label that doesn't put copy protection on their CDs. If you want it to stop, don't buy the CDs, and tell your friends not to.
If we lived in a communist society the government would copy-protect the music and we wouldn't have a choice to buy it from someone else. Course it wouldn't matter because the music would suck anyway.