Big corporations are too big, they should just not exist. When you have corporations more powerful than the government of the biggest states, it's a bug, not a feature.
The IP laws may need rethinking. Saying that they should disappear because big corporations are above the law doesn't help, though. First kill the big corporations, then think about fair laws. Changing the law now would not change anything since those corporations are already above the law.
It's not possible to kill big corporations before fair laws, because as you said yourself "corporations are already above the law"
Unfair laws don't apply to big corporations, they only apply to the people opposed to big corporations
It's akin to hamstringing a horse and saying you'll fix it when they win
Standard Oil, AT&T, the railroads, all thought they were above the law, for good reason, but they were all still broken.
Not going to happen for 4 years at least.
"Intellectual property" is an abomination of a term because it conflates 3 separate mechanisms with differing goals, pretending that they're related in any meaningful sense.
Patents protect a process. Trademarks protect identity. Copyright protects knowledge. Disparate mechanisms for disparate goals.
The idea of people owning information is really beyond comprehension for me. There’s no patent for ideas, only for mechanisms or implementations.
Besides we’re already tossing world’s knowledge in our palms, all the copy shit seems so irrelevant.
I’m not against closed source or keeping trade secrets. But once a story becomes public it should be accessible at no cost or else we get where we are atm.
The only distinction between corporations and governments is one of them are morally bankrupt arbiters of force.
For instance, what if google was still just serving search results w/ ads, and they never expanded that. How would you make them smaller?
On the other hand, you are interested in why the status quo isn't an accident and what we would need to do to accomplish those things, I recommend reading Reid Hoffman's book "Blitzscaling" side-by-side with Jacob Hacker and Paul Pierson's book "Winner-Take All Politics": you can see the same dynamics presented in two very different lights.
Or, just to follow it through, let's say "WidgetBoss LLC" makes a new Widget that every single human has to have, they become the biggest company ever by making one widget. What will you do to make them smaller? Why?
I have a big problem with Google & Meta, and I can understand arguments about those companies. But not just "big companies" as a generality.
But that's how everyone speaks now. "Literally every billionaire is evil and exploiting blah blah blah"
I don’t know how you define powerful, but I highly doubt it is at that point.
Nor should big governments.
Nor should big countries, for that matter.
