mobile makes putting a nice one of these together hard so I just picked a photo on my phone hope you enjoy. Read theory sometime. Hope everyone in DC stays safe.

  • read_freire [they/them]
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    4 years ago

    My paycheck or theirs.

    watnvm read the follow-upnvm saw some other comments

    Ip is how you get paid for labor

    wat

    IP is how the boss seeks rent on your labor. By the time it's intellectual capital, you've been paid for your time producing it.

    To say otherwise is to buy into some sort of job creator propaganda bullshit. Until market collapse, there will always be another capitalist who will pay you for your time for the opportunity to make passive income on the fruit of your labor. Ignoring IP law is good praxis, full stop.

      • read_freire [they/them]
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        4 years ago

        you say 'china doesn't steal ip'

        Umm, no I didn't. They did steal ip, and it's good praxis.

        You are not the fortunes of your company. Go sell your labor to someone else.

        I mean I get where you're coming from. But I think the route is to redirect xenophobia or protectionist inclinations back to workplace grievances with the boss. IMO that's the real source of the resentment we're talking about anyway--the capitalists have managed to redirect it to foreign targets already (and produce solidarity/identification with the boss/company instead of other workers at the same time), but they're the ones that have cut hours, benefits and pay non-stop for the last 40 years.

        Same shit they've always done with labor, divide and conquer. In the west, that shit stopped when the Irish and italian miners working for different companies across town realized it wasn't the other that was the problem, it was the boss.