Correct. With or with patents and with or without copyright, it eventually would have been invented.
Edit: Curious if you watched the full video. It clearly indicates that all corporate efforts were heading in an opposite direction and that the path this inventor took was considered to be not profitable and not worth the investment by everyone else working on this. The company he worked for wanted to shut down his research and focus on following the herd. No one else was close to his level of progress and capitalist interests almost scuttled this invention.
The company didn't invent it. A person did. The company almost stopped it from being invented. They didn't spend millions inventing this. A person spent tens of thousands of hours inventing it.
That the funding is only available from a company is a result of the patent system. It does not spur development, it perverts it. Any ideas to the contrary are propaganda.
People have been inventing shit longer than corporations have existed. People have been inventing things without any guarantee on return on investment for most of human history.
Capitalism is bullshit and the capitalization of ideas harms humanity.
Excellent counter example to anyone claiming that we need patent and copyright to innovate.
This man made nothing on his invention and was not motivated by money but fame.
There are endless of examples of how those who do things for money hold back the creativity that leads to innovation. This is one of them. It almost didn't happen because his pursuit was not seen as profitable.
I didn't want to assume based off what little they provided since often this libertarian puffery but their follow up indicates clear intent to evade taxes.
Not filing is tax evasion a bit of research would alleviate them of any misconceptions on this.
There only hope is to file all those years and as you noted, ignore the penalties but I see no indication they'll be doing that anytime soon.
This type of person is the reason cash app and others are now required to report. And if this fool tries to skirt around by structuring payments under those limits, they'll fuck themselves in ways only money launderers experience.
The fact that they haven't hit the existing limits indicates they are living a life of poverty. They are putting themselves at substantial risk over tiny sums of money. Either that or they are structuring payments, at which point money laundering comes into play and whoever is playing along with them is putting themselves at substantial risk.
Playing stupid stops working when you hit 18. The IRS doesn't give a fuck if you can't keep track of it. They will assume it's all a taxable event if you cannot prove otherwise.
Those apps are reporting anything over a certain minimum. When the IRS decides you're worth going after, they will audit you, they will go back as many years as allowed by law, you will be fucked.
What you're doing is tax evasion. There is zero argument otherwise. No lawyer will be able to help you. You will very definitely end up in jail.
This post is evidence of your criminal intent.
Your rationale here makes you sound like a sovereign citizen. You certainly don't sound very wise. Not collecting a last paycheck, because paperwork...damn.
The IRS won't call you, they'll send certified mail and the fucking will start and you will probably continue to fuck aroind and end up prison and from what I've read here, you will never recover.
Are you feeling superior over not filing your taxing?
The most likely scenario here is that if were you to file, you'd receive a refund. The IRS will happily keep your money.
However, if you have mucked with your deductions such that you are underpaying, you're playing a dangerous game.
As they say, fuck around and find out. In this case the fuck around part will especially unpleasant.
Hope you maintain cash only lifestyle because they will empty your bank accounts. They will garnish your wages. They will get a their money with penalties and interest.
“And I just want to clarify that, through these changes, people feel it on the ground and sometimes people write back and say, ‘Thank you for simplifying.’ Sometimes we have a complicated, duplicative structure”
Employees think leadership is out of touch. This statement from the CEO proves this problem exists and starts at the top.
Have you considered you're programmed to think everyone but you is programmed?
You seem to have no problem expressing your knowledge on the exact motivations behind other's decisions. This is a signal that does not favor you having high emotional intelligence.
That you cannot tell the difference between my theory and your certainty is another such signal.
I've never seen such a distinct projection as your comment which starts off as "you people have been programmed (against)" and you ending with you own "nostalgia" towards the same product.
You admit you've been programmed to have a pleasant feeling when consuming this product and yet cannot rather than accept that others do not have this programming, jump past this obvious state and accuse others of having been programmed against your beloved product experience.
Very intriguing and illustrative example on the effects of marketing to mould the human mind and trigger its defenses.
Take that comment as an example. You're too stupid to follow the thread, too stupid to realize how stupid you sound, too ignorant to understand the loser is you.
But points for recognizing there is a loser in this thread. Next step is realizing you are them. Next step is keeping your stupid to yourself rather than removing everyone's doubt.
And the amount he actually won only covered the legal fees, so he made nothing.