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jongjongtoday at 9:26 AM0 repliesview on HN

We can't abolish it. That would be theft. A lot of people worked very hard based on the assumption that their work would be theirs and that they could monetize it.

It would be the greatest theft of human labor since slavery.

If we switch to a communist system with UBI, then that might be acceptable. Otherwise not. You can't arbitrarily abolish laws as soon as they become inconvenient to capital.