Comment The guys with the beards (Score 1) 696
My I kindly point out, Sir, that you are arriving at exactly the point some exiled journalist in London came to some 150 years ago?
His basic insight was that power within society stems from posessions and riches, and especially those riches that allow you to produce more riches, which, in a capitalist society, are companies. And that those fortunes have a significant effect on how society is shaped, run, and governed, i.e. they influence which laws are made, how they are made, and by whom. His proposed solution, however, prooved to be remarkably unworkable due to a couple of wrong assumptions regarding the nature of humans.
I do understand, though, that liberal slashdot posters are usually in opopsition to intellectual property and would not always give credit where credit is due.