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Originally Posted by Paul Markham
And before any one advocates it's the "big bosses" protecting what's theirs. Or any similar BS. Think deeper.
Bill Gates amassed a fortune. I read just a moment ago it was $42000000000.000. $42 billion for those who can't count the zeros.
Let's assume for every 2 cents he added to his wealth 98 were spent on Microsoft products. So take $42 billion and multiply it be 49. That's the money that Microsoft generated. Money that employed board members, who owned houses that had to be built, cars that had to be made and toilets that were cleaned by staff.
Microsoft employs 1,000s of people that spend money in their community. Even the guy who cleans the toilets in Microsoft's offices earns money and spend it locally. Even shops selling the Microsoft products employ people, who earn money from sales and spend it again in other shops.
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if that your arguement then you are screwed because for every dollar made by the copyright monopoly 7 is made by fair use industries.
fair use industries produce and utilize hard goods like servers, copiers, pvr which require pyysical transportation.
They have much lower profit margins and spend more of their selling price on hiring people therefore have a greater multiplication effect.
if anything if that an arguement for screwing over the copyright monopoly in favor of the business that would make money producing real items.