The ability to change features, prices, and availability of things you’ve already paid for is a powerful temptation to corporations.

  • Katana314@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    The “taking a physical object” analogy doesn’t even give us anything useful.

    Most stores of perishable goods don’t want to hold onto their stock; they want to give it away, ideally in a way that makes them money. In many countries, they will even give away the last excess to homeless people that would not reasonably be able to afford it.

    If there’s one orange seller in a town that’s put effort into a supply train to bring oranges there, but someone has shared a magic spell that lets them xerox oranges off the shelf, then that orange seller never gets paid, and has no livelihood; it doesn’t help him that he still has all of the oranges he brought to market, he’s not going to eat them all himself.

    I expect the morally deprived will answer “Not my problem.” Yet, it’s going to be an issue for them when they try to run their own business.