Victoria Antoinette

copying isn’t stealing

I didn’t say he’s off base. I said it’s useless. he’s not actually making a claim that I can use to predict anything.

what is the rate at which consolidation if parties occurs? if a fptp system exists with more than two parties, what reason do we have to believe it will consolidate, and when?

it’s a critical rationalist examination that would label it tautological: it’s true and it’s always true because of how weasley the wording is. “people tend to do the right thing” is a tautological claim because every example of people not doing the right thing is already covered in theassive loophole opened with the term “tend”. there is no way to set up a test to disprove it.

duverger’s law is not actually a law at all, but a tautology. it has no actual predictive power, and hand-waves away evidence of instances where it has not turned out to be true.

no joke, you know the brie and gummy worms work.

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I’m not sure you want to rely on Patreon in any case, since it also relies on the retention of rights for profit. In your scenario, when they upload to Patreon, anyone involved could tell them to get fucked and pay the author nothing.

anyone could do that now. people still get paid.

Exactly, and since it certainly follows a long tail distribution, the rest of the 250,000 creators on patreon make a tiny fraction of that. For the vast majority of people, it doesn’t provide a primary income.

this is true for the vast majority of storytellers and artists and musicians through all of history.

any time it has worked proves you are wrong. the top 50 patreons clear over $100k a year

only one person would need to be able to live on either model to disprove your claim. since that has definitely happened, you’re definitely lying.

you claim they are not feasible, but we know people do get paid through them, so you’re just lying.

you recognize two well known cases where copyright is not necessary to get paid. I don’t think there is even an argument at this point. have a nice day.

I didn’t say that. you’re making a leap of logic

on the internet, no one knows you’re a dog. whether I have or not, saying so doesn’t prove it. what I said stands on its own merits and your inability to make an argument without attacking identity speaks to the strength of your argument, your understanding of the subject, and your ability (or willingness) to engage in good faith.

the law does not say it is theft.

your attacks on my identity don’t undercut my claims at all.

people made art, music, and stories long before copyright

this doesn’t address what I said at all.

copyright dates to the statute of Anne. it was not invented in America.