Kaputalism Minimalist on Nostr: Digital goods like software and media can be copied for basically free. We know what ...

Digital goods like software and media can be copied for basically free. We know what the maximum prosperity of that looks like. It's when everyone can gets a free copy of whatever media or software they desire.

The state doesn't force busineses to go the route of making digital goods artefically scarce.

It is capitalism that incentivises this rent seeking behavior.

Capitalism is not a hypothetical unregulated free market. It is a system where an owner class of people allocate capital in order to extract more capital from the work of others.

That system incentives a certain behaviour and it is not in any way efficient in allocating resources to maximize prosperity. And it is just undeniably obvious in the case of digital goods.

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your priors are wrong. capitalism is not some system that was ‘designed’, nor does it aim to achieve anything. it is a natural outcome of the self-interest of individuals.

you would be naive to assume to know how swathes of resources can be allocated to most effectively maximise prosperity.

in terms of SaaS/DRM, this is still the result of the state. look at how easy it is, even currently, to torrent cracked SaaS, or to bypass DRM, but the reason this alt software doesn’t proliferate amongst businesses/individuals is the legal risk.