Thanks for your response! As I understand, even under marxism I still have the ability to use the product of my labour to buy things for my personal use? Like if I want to own a painting or piece of art, I can exchange the products of my labour with an artist for the products of their labour.
Regarding ownership, personal property still exists on some level, right? I don't want other people wearing my clothes or sleeping in my bed for instance. I might not even want people driving my personal car if it's something that I collected, built, or restored myself.
That is somewhat correct. It may not necessarily be the case that the tractor is impossibly out of reach of others. It's possible that everyone could afford a tractor but did not deem it necessary to make the purchase at the time that I did, spending the money on other equipment instead, like a mill for instance.
Thanks for the response! I guess what I'm wondering is if owning the tractor and leasing it out could still exist alongside collective ownership?
If I already have the means of purchasing the tractor for myself, I might not want to enter into a cooperative agreement with others and deal with the overhead that comes with it - especially if it were a scenario where I originally purchased it solely as a tool for myself. Let's say it were a simple tool like a scythe, collective ownership might seem like too much hassle when it would be more convenient if everyone just had their own.
Thanks for your response! If I understand correctly, you're saying the state / my community should collectively hold a vote to see if me leasing out the tractor is exploitative, and maybe prevent me from doing so or appropriate it for the collective benefit?
It was also my understanding that markets still exist under socialism in some level?
Thanks your response! I understand that distributed ownership and cooperatives exist as an option, even in existing capitalist societies. What I do wonder about is to what extent private ownership would still be permitted to exist?
Maybe in my scenario nobody else in the community thought the tractor was a priority investment at the time the purchase was made. Or perhaps instead of just me owning the tractor, it's instead owned by my cooperative and we're wondering if we can lease it out to other cooperatives?
An employer could offer an immediate $15,000 signing bonus to anyone who already has the certification, effectively outsourcing their training costs while pocketing the extra 5k of the 20k true cost
That sounds like a nightmare! I don't think game developers (or any other artist) would want the CRA breathing down their neck, telling them what they can or can't do with their work. I certainly wouldn't program under those conditions.
This would be an issue if the servers use any proprietary code, libraries, or services the developer is not at liberty to distribute.
A studio may also to reuse their networking code for a sequel, and it would suck being forced to release that just because an older title got discontinued - could lead to exploits, or just competitors profiting off of your hard work with no compensation in exchange.
I'm not comfortable with the idea of the government dictating what developers must do with their games. There are legitimate legal, financial, and artistic reasons they may not want to be forced to distribute in that way.
I think that it's the responsibility of consumers to make sure they have the level of ownership over the games they like. I personally don't really like to invest into live service games for this reason, but I do enjoy playing them on occasion and appreciate that they're free to play and receive constant updates. Forcing the Deves to open source their code at the end of the game's life cycle would jeopardize their vision and our ability to play games like them.
Contrary to what I said earlier, residents of certain provinces have been complaining that the quality of their healthcare has been substandard, and are upset that there are no alternatives available as the law forbids private doctors from even setting up shop there.
What's wrong with a monopoly if people are satisfied with it's service? In Canada, the government has a monopoly on healthcare and generally people don't complain.
I suspect if we banned the ability to earn profits from farming, there wouldn't be many people who would want to farm. Personally, I'd rather choose an unprofitable job that was less exhausting, like being a starving artist.
I imagine that the easiest way to acquire specific training data for a LLM is to download EBooks from amazon. If a university professor pirates a textbook and then uses extracts from various pages in their lecture slides, the cost of the crime would be the cost of a single textbook. In the case of a novel, GRRM should be entitled to the cost of a set of Ice & Fire if they could prove that the original training material was illegaly pirated instead of legally purchased.
Once a copy of a book is sold, an author typically has no say in how it gets used outside of reproduction.
If I took 100 of the world's best-selling novels, wrote each individual word onto a flashcard, shuffled the entire deck, then created an entirely new novel out of that, (with completely original characters, plot threads, themes, and messaged) could it be said that I produced stolen work?
What if I specifically attempted to emulate the style of the number one author on that list? What if instead of 100 novels, I used 1,000 or 10,000? What if instead of words on flashcards, I wrote down sentences? What if it were letters instead?
At some point, regardless of by what means the changes were derived, a transformed work must pass a threshold whereby content alone it is sufficiently different enough that it can no longer be considered derivative.
Thanks for your response! As I understand, even under marxism I still have the ability to use the product of my labour to buy things for my personal use? Like if I want to own a painting or piece of art, I can exchange the products of my labour with an artist for the products of their labour.
Regarding ownership, personal property still exists on some level, right? I don't want other people wearing my clothes or sleeping in my bed for instance. I might not even want people driving my personal car if it's something that I collected, built, or restored myself.