[Marxism] Information monopolies (Was: The Cranes are Flying worldwide distribution, and why payback is not piracy)

[David Picón Álvarez <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Out of curiosity, what do you think about inventors' certificates, as 
existed in the fSU in lieu of patents? Also if anyone has any legal and/or 
empirical info on this topic, I'd be interested, as I study law but we no 
longer deal with them as they are considered outdated.

WRT automation, I remember there was an SF book that had as a premise a 
society in which a person would be exempt from labour if they managed to 
automate their own work so that they could be substituted by machines. While 
from an LTV viewpoint it seems this would lead to a monotonic decrease in 
value creation, I think it encapsulates the important idea that we shouldn't 
be working just to be working, but that human labour should be deployed for 
the social good and not as an end in itself. Automation has definitely not 
delivered on this promise of fewer working hours, neither in capitalist 
economies, nor, I must admit, in the workers' states.

--David.


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