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Most of the time when people say they have an unpopular opinion, it turns out it's actually pretty popular.

Do you have some that's really unpopular and most likely will get you downvoted?

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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

You have to keep some kind of a compensation mechanism in place that guarantees worldly rewards to inventors, researchers or creators for innovation or art. Otherwise why would they work?

Intellectual "ownership", as ridiculously bullshit as it currently sounds, is the mechanism in place currently. Is there anything else you can suggest?