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WarmWashyesterday at 9:02 PM1 replyview on HN

The key thing to address is the near zero marginal cost part.

If the philosophy extended beyond a binary blob, we would have a whole parallel economy of free tangible goods, from workers using their expertise on their own time. But this basically doesn't exist because real costs are involved.


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swed420yesterday at 9:36 PM

This thread started with me citing a counterexample to your wide sweeping attempt to lump self-interested corporations in with humans who tend to be generous under many circumstances. I've made my point, so I'm done here.