1's and 0's would be just the same as a well designed building.
there are buildings that can house a whole family and there are buildings that are dumb art sculptures that cost 1000x more than they are worth.
ill even go on to say that there are games that can help people learn as everyone learns differently, games are a great way to simulate the "doing" learning method in a safe environment.
I think the point is more that you're paying for information, which can be infinitely and cheaply copied (like a real life Star Trek replicator). Information does not work the same as physical goods, and the market price of information is $0
but that is also unsustainable. who in their right mind would spend time making those things when they get nothing out of it? that is why copyright laws and intellectual property were created, to give business to intelligence.
Oh, something interesting I forgot to include in my previous post... a lot of open source projects are funded entirely with donations, no selling of software. For example, Webpack and Babel get ~$200,000 a year each:
This system works, and is very sustainable (Blender has been around for 26 years, Webpack for 8 years, and Babel for 5 years). And these aren't cherry picked examples, there are quite literally hundreds of thousands of open source projects (and many thousands are decades old).
When I said that information works fundamentally different from physical goods, I meant it. Your intuition about whether it's "sustainable" or not is going to be wrong, since your intuition is based on physical goods.
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RIchard_Gristle_II ago
Anyone that gives CDPR money should be gassed.
Killnigs3 ago
McFluffy ago
1's and 0's would be just the same as a well designed building.
there are buildings that can house a whole family and there are buildings that are dumb art sculptures that cost 1000x more than they are worth.
ill even go on to say that there are games that can help people learn as everyone learns differently, games are a great way to simulate the "doing" learning method in a safe environment.
but this cyperdong 2077 is just trash.
Mystiker ago
I think the point is more that you're paying for information, which can be infinitely and cheaply copied (like a real life Star Trek replicator). Information does not work the same as physical goods, and the market price of information is $0
McFluffy ago
but that is also unsustainable. who in their right mind would spend time making those things when they get nothing out of it? that is why copyright laws and intellectual property were created, to give business to intelligence.
Mystiker ago
Oh, something interesting I forgot to include in my previous post... a lot of open source projects are funded entirely with donations, no selling of software. For example, Webpack and Babel get ~$200,000 a year each:
https://opencollective.com/webpack
https://opencollective.com/babel
And Blender (which is fantastic open source software) receives $1.7 million dollars a year in donations and sponsorship:
https://fund.blender.org/
This system works, and is very sustainable (Blender has been around for 26 years, Webpack for 8 years, and Babel for 5 years). And these aren't cherry picked examples, there are quite literally hundreds of thousands of open source projects (and many thousands are decades old).
When I said that information works fundamentally different from physical goods, I meant it. Your intuition about whether it's "sustainable" or not is going to be wrong, since your intuition is based on physical goods.