I wasn’t familiar with the term, but I always (until this moment) assumed that everybody viewed science that way.

Hi there. I’m an artist who gives away everything for free because I don’t personally think it’s ethical to profit from pure human emotional expression. I also don’t think it’s ethical for some faceless corporation to profit from my art. I will ABSOLUTELY fight against my art being used to train AI models, but I have ABSOLUTELY no desire to profit. In fact, I have the opposite desire.

So tell me exactly what is rent-seeking?

As a middle schooler I used Power Point to make FMV games for my friends and classmates, and it was basically this. Just, like, SO MANY slides

I like to think of life as the universe reaching out and trying to know itself

But not in Marx’s time. 45s and 33 1/3s weren’t invented until the 40s

$0. I would not have any it if I didn’t pirate it. I was never going to spend any money.