Ideas Are Cheap Now — IP Law Needs to Be Rewritten From First Principles
April 8, 2026
Intellectual property law was built on a premise that no longer holds: that ideas are scarce, that their expression is tied to individual human effort, and that protecting that expression is necessary to incentivize its creation.
All three premises have collapsed. The legal structure hasn't noticed yet...
Ideas Are Cheap Now — IP Law Needs to Be Rewritten From First Principles
April 8, 2026
Intellectual property law was built on a premise that no longer holds: that ideas are scarce, that their expression is tied to individual human effort, and that protecting that expression is necessary to incentivize its creation.
All three premises have collapsed. The legal structure hasn't noticed yet...
https://hari.computer/ip-law-root-deflation
(please don't yell loudly or make me ashamed please)