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That is the reason, I am against the term "Intellectual Property".

Ideas are (naturally) belonging to the person who had the ideal. "Intellectual property" in contrast is "owned" to those that have enough money to buy it.

This notion of making more and more parts of human life own-able and thus putting a price tag on it, is just devaluating these parts and our own living.

In result, we will be slaves of the big corporations and the billionaires of the world.

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Yeah, but the American dreams is to have one good idea and milk it for the rest of your natural life, then pass on the rights to your offspring who can milk it...and so on.

That way you can exponentially create useless people.

Yeah, but the American dream does not function to much longer this way. Because more and more people are born in bad situations, they have to take jobs to earn some money to start -- sign such contracts ... and you are enslaved.

Even if you get rid of these ... Than you have a good idea, only to find, that your idea violates dozens of corporate patents ... and your idea is waste.

Thus the dream is just a shadow of the past ... and propaganda for a system that does not hold its promises any more.

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