The artist behind this painting, Criselda Vasquez, painted this portrait of her parents in 2017. The man in this painting, her father, was recently taken by ICE. He has lived in the United States for forty years. This loss has made it hard for the family to support themselves. If you want to support them, you can go to their GoFundMe here:
https://t.co/Mgp7W8m5xJ
“Terrible things are happening outside. At any time of night and day, poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes.” -Anne Frank, 01/13/1943
The idea that you can own an idea is really strange. It's so strange in fact that for the first 5000 years of written history, no one thought of it.
Back then, there was no incentive to invent anything. Built a better plow? Great, sell one and then anyone copy it. And so the great minds of the Greeks and Romans focused on philosophy and geometry, eschewing mechanical ideas as vulgar. Archimedes, for instance, though he invented many devices to defend Syracuse, refused to write down how they were made, thinking anything but pure mathematics was beneath him.
Then just 500 years ago, out of the milieu of the medieval guild system and monopolies on industries granted by kings came a completely novel idea: if you came up with a new device, you could have a monopoly on selling it for several years.
Bang! Now for the first time in history, there was actually an incentive to invent. The concept spread from the city-states of the Italian Renaissance into France and England, and all of a sudden technological progress was happening at breakneck speed. Steam engines, railroads, cars, planes. The Industrial Revolution kicks off and society just 500 years later looks more alien to 1500AD than 3000BC would've.
But now we have to give all that up because Jack Dorsey is annoyed he can't train his AI on your writing.
@sunshinevkbb@CaliYugaBoomer@filmwithyas I don’t agree with the person you replied to, but weren’t people outside of actors, directors, and producers underpaid?