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<blockquote data-quote="Mustrum_Ridcully" data-source="post: 5099639" data-attributes="member: 710">But I can still take away your gold. Even if it means nothing to you or me. You won't have it afterwards. It's gone. If I steal your idea of using Goblins as a slave race created from children with a growth disease, you can still use it. You don't forget it. Even if I create a setting book build around this idea, you could still do the same! If I had taken away your gold, you can't give it to anyone. You cannot even try, because it's not there.There is a difference between these two types of things. Figuring out how to value it is the challenge. How can we reward someone for having good ideas, without restricting these ideas so no one (or not enough) can benefit from it? We want people to have good ideas. Lots of them. But an idea that you can't use has no worth. In that regard, it is same as with the value of your gold. You can't eat or drink gold, and it can't protect you from the elements or predators either. But we agreed at some point that you can exchange this gold for something that you can drink, or eat, or that can protect you from the elements or from predators or for sexual services or whatever. You can exchange it for something that actually can satisfy one of your needs. That's why it can have worth.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mustrum_Ridcully, post: 5099639, member: 710"] But I can still take away your gold. Even if it means nothing to you or me. You won't have it afterwards. It's gone. If I steal your idea of using Goblins as a slave race created from children with a growth disease, you can still use it. You don't forget it. Even if I create a setting book build around this idea, you could still do the same! If I had taken away your gold, you can't give it to anyone. You cannot even try, because it's not there. There [I]is[/I] a difference between these two types of things. Figuring out how to value it is the challenge. How can we reward someone for having good ideas, without restricting these ideas so no one (or not enough) can benefit from it? We want people to have good ideas. Lots of them. But an idea that you can't use has no worth. In that regard, it is same as with the value of your gold. You can't eat or drink gold, and it can't protect you from the elements or predators either. But we agreed at some point that you can exchange this gold for something that you can drink, or eat, or that can protect you from the elements or from predators or for sexual services or whatever. You can exchange it for something that actually can satisfy one of your needs. That's why it can have worth. [/QUOTE]

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