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<blockquote data-quote="bramadan" data-source="post: 108207" data-attributes="member: 1064">A note on capitalism, system which I fully endorse:Captalism is based on individual greed. Getting as much as possible for as little as possible is at a core of capitalism. Paying &quot;fairly&quot; for other people's products, not getting something unless one is willing to pay the asked price and so on are noble ideas but not ones that are realy jiving with the basic capitalist view of human nature. That is why capitalism goes hand in hand with criminal law: potential dangers from theft should outweight the benefits of it (modified by chances of getting caught). If they do not then the &quot;rational agent&quot; of classical capitalist economy will steal all the time.As in so many other situations classical economy is right and vast majority of people *do* steal...It is therefore not somehow &quot;uncapitialistic&quot; to pirat software, music or what have you...A law that most people do not find moraly binding *and* is unenforcable is a meaningless one.For the record: I do not pirate books, not for moral reasons (altrough I probably would buy the small d20 publishers stuff in any case) but because I hate reading of the screen and can not be bothered to print 100+ pages.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="bramadan, post: 108207, member: 1064"] A note on capitalism, system which I fully endorse: Captalism is based on individual greed. Getting as much as possible for as little as possible is at a core of capitalism. Paying "fairly" for other people's products, not getting something unless one is willing to pay the asked price and so on are noble ideas but not ones that are realy jiving with the basic capitalist view of human nature. That is why capitalism goes hand in hand with criminal law: potential dangers from theft should outweight the benefits of it (modified by chances of getting caught). If they do not then the "rational agent" of classical capitalist economy will steal all the time. As in so many other situations classical economy is right and vast majority of people *do* steal... It is therefore not somehow "uncapitialistic" to pirat software, music or what have you... A law that most people do not find moraly binding *and* is unenforcable is a meaningless one. For the record: I do not pirate books, not for moral reasons (altrough I probably would buy the small d20 publishers stuff in any case) but because I hate reading of the screen and can not be bothered to print 100+ pages. [/QUOTE]

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