Read this. Good and important points. Marx, alive today, could focus entirely on the publishing industry: how it has transitioned, with the evolution of technology, from one set of perverse incentives to another; how it has done harm because, given its incentives, it must do harm. Formerly, it had a necessary role even so, because of the economics of production and distribution. Today, production no longer has that barrier to entry, but distribution still does, along with new, non-economic barriers. That is the part that is not yet understood. The nonsense of "intellectual property" is almost a red herring beside it. Property is the thing you hoard, and that is the point of the article, but no one sees how to get back from there to a thriving culture.
Read this. Good and important points. Marx, alive today, could focus entirely on the publishing industry: how it has transitioned, with the evolution of technology, from one set of perverse incentives to another; how it has done harm because, given its incentives, it must do harm. Formerly, it had a necessary role even so, because of the economics of production and distribution. Today, production no longer has that barrier to entry, but distribution still does, along with new, non-economic barriers. That is the part that is not yet understood. The nonsense of "intellectual property" is almost a red herring beside it. Property is the thing you hoard, and that is the point of the article, but no one sees how to get back from there to a thriving culture.