I am not really getting your point about the above posting by you… The one with the links.
You are kind of drifting between arguements and not drawing your debate to a close.
I will say I am all for intellectual property protection, which was a large point of the wikipedia link.
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It seems a bit off because it was referring to a discussion about the battle between capital and labor. You claim that the employment/labor market is a “free market,” but that is absolutely untrue. Capital is in a much more powerful position than labor, and when you want to reduce the power of labor to every individual man for himself…well, it’s just comical. That is NOT a free market. There is unilateral power and knowledge, and a “free market” cannot exist in such an environment. Unions — a balance of power — are absolutely necessary if a “free market” is to survive and thrive.
The links show how capital will band together to gain more money/power, and this money/power is being siphoned directly from labor. It is imperative that labor band together as a counterbalance to the power of capital.
BTW, Ayn Rand was a **fiction** author/screenwriter, and many of her former, most adherent followers have admitted that she was wrong.
