Yup, I totally get that. Plus theres the satisfaction of it. And for many things the option to have it custom suited to your needs.

If I was a billionaire, there would be very few things I’d buy from a factory. Well, maybe not few, like toothbrushes toilet paper etc… obviously there are many things id get factory, but wherever possible, I’d prefer hand made by artisans, because its cooler, I want them to have jobs, and I can have it custom made. I’d be prepared to pay that premium for others to do it too.

Yes it does, if you want to be good at it.

If its a job, you dont need another job, whoch means all your time and effort can be used for being a great artist.

Ya lol. Thats always the way. Mass production really reduces the cost of everything like crazy. Anything one builds for themselves is always going to be crazy expensive compared to factory made. Unless they have all the equipment already, and knowhow to do it real fast.

No, because if the information is public domain, then anyone can freely copy and redistribute it. Nobody could incent anything, because as soon as you do, its public, and anyone can copy it. Nobody could create unique software, because anyone could copy it.

If an artist or creator has a unique original idea, then in your system, it is automatically public, and free for anyone to copy and redistribute.

Nobody will give a shit who the original is, if they can get the exact same thing for cheap or for free.

In the 90s, everyone knew who the original artists for music was. They still all downloaded it for free, because they could, and it was not even legal.

So, i’m afraid you’re living in a fantasy world with this idea.

Intellectual property is important. But, I think it is too highly enforced in some cases and not enough in others. For example, I believe it should be the law that anyone could make an operating system fully compatible with windows, and that windows should be force to provide all information to allow that, as otherwise they have an unjust monopoly.

There are other cases like that, like, I believe every nation should make it mandatory that all social media algorithms are publicly declared, able to be copied, and able to be tested to make sure the declared algorithm is correct. This way they cant be biased to brainwash people.

But your idea goes too far, as it completely.destroys anybody’s ability to make profit off ideas.

The result will be that people keep ideas to themselves.

Yes, because they are being used to defend against the person supplying your weapons.

Being able to secure your own sovereignty is pretty top of the list of your concerns.

Weapons dont need to be fired in order to be effective, nor a good use of money.

In fact, effective weapons you don’t ever fire, is a way better use of money than one’s you need to use.

Yes, I fully agree, and Canada needs a nuclear deterrent as well.

Then artists could not create anything as a job.

Now remove the bottom and re-do that one and your fridge looks meant to be that way, and better.

Strawman argument.

I never said anyone was wasting time anywhere. And my comment was not a meme.

Trump lies. He lies because it works. It works because people think calling out his lies in their echo chamber does something. It doesnt. His lies are for the echo chambers he controls. He controls meta. He controls twitter, he controls tiktok.

You dont. Your memes only find people who already agree with you, and you all do nothing.

Organize. Boycott. Protest.