The US Government specifically made treaties and then violated them, repeatedly. Sure we didn't sign those treaties, but we definitely benefit from the violation of them. It's not crazy to think the descendants of the people harmed should be compensated.
Your ancestors are irrelevant. You, personally, benefit every day from that theft. We all do. It's only right that the country and people that benefit from that terrible injustice should do something to make up for it.
It's not about punishing or blaming anybody. It's about lifting up those who were oppressed and who's rights were violated by the US government (and the colonial governments before it).
Then on top of all that, they were completely surrounded on that land by the very people who did all these horrible things to them?
Are you really asking why native American tribes are poor???
Yes you can do whatever you want with your hardware, but that doesn't mean Apple has to support or enable everything you want to do. If you want to try to crack their OS so you can side load, go for it.
Of course, this is solving a problem that doesn't really exist, but it does make it pretty easy to transfer and prove ownership of a copyright.
The same thing doesn't work for work files, at least not for me. Code and datasets especially cannot be stored in a laundry basket - you would have to come up with a unique filename for each one. This would have to be something human readable so that you can find them... which means you wind up just concatenating folder names into a filenames. Seems rather pointless and difficult to manage.
Similarly, vaccines prevent the transmission of infectious disease. Sure, they also protect the person who is vaccinated, but that's only part of why they should be required.
As for pro-choice & pro-vax-mandate being hypocritical... maybe a little. The big difference is that an abortion is a private matter. Not getting a vaccine affects everyone around you.
The bigger question though is do you need to own the copyright for something to sell an NFT linked to it? I don't really see why you would... you're not selling the underlying asset, you're selling a token hashed from it, right? So you're just selling a number very loosely derived from it, and from which you can't reproduce the original in any way.
It's not even like taking a picture of a painting and trying to sell it. It's more akin to selling an audio recording of you standing in front of a piece of art saying "I'm looking at a Picasso".
"One lawyer can steal more than a hundred men with guns." -- The Godfather