Lucas loses Stormtrooper copyright to Ainsworth

[devilof76]

I don't suffer from the illusion that I own the job which other people provide for me.

 

[Shatterer of Dreams]

It may have more to do with the fact that US corporations make sure the rest of the world is working while we have record unemployment which in turn leads to a struggling economy. Other than that outsourcing is awesome.

 

[d_jedi1]

didn't Marx say something to the effect that in order to reach "true" communism you had to work through capitalism first? lol
I guess we'll find out

 

[devilof76]

But what he meant was, to reach communism, you have to gut capitalism first. Which is what the U.S. economy has been a slow motion example of since the turn of the last century. There is no capitalism here. Capitalism is defined by the freedom of markets, and I'd love to know where any of you see that. You know why corporations outsource? Because the officials elected by the citizens of this country regulate and tax them to the point where they aren't interested in doing business with you anymore. You as a people have decided that the only justification for their wealth is their service to you. They disagreed. They went into business to make money, not to serve the needs of consumers and people who think they have a right to a job.

So they went elsewhere. Woe.

I suppose you could keep trying to make them obey, but I imagine you'll just get more of the same. A wrecked economy and no means to fix it because the people who are actually capable of creating functioning markets aren't interested in bowing to your terms.

 

[d_jedi1]

well, look on the bright side... if they wreck it much more then all of that $ they're busy chasing won't mean a thing and they'll have to start trying something else.

 

[Shatterer of Dreams]

Haha. This right here is a classic derail.....

 

[Kamandi]

A man wins a copyright case and it's the end of capitalism.

 

[d_jedi1]

dunno, this whole thing sounds like a WIN for Capitalism... wouldn't have been a case otherwise.

 

[devilof76]

Property rights are the defining legal feature of capitalism, and the stormtrooper armor is not Ainsworth's property.

A man wins a copyright case and it's the end of capitalism.

Like I said, you have to have capitalism first. This is really just a demonstration of how far Britain has fallen. May as well call itself France or Germany at this point.

 

[Darth Cruel]

I don't suffer from the illusion that I own the job which other people provide for me.

I agree that having a job isn a priveledge and not a right. But there is a catch 22 here. We have to have jobs of some sort. And now, if someone wants to keep their job they have to be good at it Generally, this statement is null and void if you belong to a union). If that person wants to be good at it, they have to dedicate themselves to it to some degree. And when they do that, it sucks to lose the job despite it not being a right to have. And if they have dedicated themselves to it in an attempt to excel at it...it will be just a little harder to re-invent themselves into another profession if that is necessary. And at the very least, if a person has worked at the position they lost for some time, it is not just the income that they have lost, it is all of the rewards they have built up over time such as retirement and vacation. Not to mention the possible insurance lost.

So at the very least...even without its being a right, it still sucks.

A man wins a copyright case and it's the end of capitalism.

This seems like kind of an unrealistic extreme.

 

[devilof76]

People have lost the concept of where a job comes from, and along with that, the respect which those who provide them deserve.

 

[Darth Cruel]

People have lost the concept of where a job comes from, and along with that, the respect which those who provide them deserve.

It, however, can not be ignored that no nation will survive without a workforce. It has to be give and take between employers and employees. Both have to realize their responsibilies and hold to them.

 

[thenammagazine]

People have lost the concept of where a job comes from, and along with that, the respect which those who provide them deserve.

Hence the modern "entitlement generation."

 

[psifan]

Good for him.

 

[devilof76]

Power to the people.

 

[P1X4R]

despite all the controversy, i still love mine.

 

[Centurion]

This was about just the helmets? Geez, George!