Monopoly

Woke Larry Russell.

I mean, like, actually, Monopoly's not so good.

Soft boy, Larry Russell.

I mean,

There's not much chance of Soviets as you define them.

But communism? Can you honestly say that some pig farmer in the outskirts of Syriza hears that the General Secretary is eat-screwing his way through the Presidium and thinks, hallelujah, I can get a small business loan? It's not like the kids were playing Monopoly and lighting candles to the memory of the shareholders when everything went tits up.

And I'll be honest, I can't think of a better system than communism for rebuilding civilization in a post-psychopocalypse world.

I mean, just look at the burbs.

I heard about it years and years ago, but hell, of course, brings this stuff up.

Monopoly, what you described is the mirror image of a monopoly.

A monopoly is a single provider.

In other words, it's a misogyny where the government is a single buyer.

The money is going into...

It's Monopoly money.

It's gone bonkers, you know.

But it's not just the money.

Isn't that theirs? Yeah.

So they kind of have almost, almost, you know, not quite enough for Monopoly, but they do have a few different drugs that they can use.

And Red Eye thinks Q1, Q2, 2027 when that comes out.

Yeah.

Council says no, it was to produce lyrics.

Uh, did they actually try to say that Claude's whole purpose is to produce song lyrics? Judge Lee said that if counsel had their way, then that would, quote, entrench a publisher's monopoly.

To which their counsel replied, quote, Monopoly is not a bad word in the context of copyright.

Gee, say the quiet part out loud, why don't ya? The main part of their claim is market harm under Factor 4.

Your reminder that Factor 4 is about creating a direct substitute for the individual work, not merely creating a competing product.

AT&T owned Bell Labs after all the bells, all the...

Remember, at one point there was one single Monopoly phone company.

Yeah, they did

that Monopoly breakup thing, yeah.

And then they broke it up into all these government-operated, sort of semi-operated, it's a weird story, but they broke them up into all the bells.

And AT&T retained Bell Labs.

Number two, government's big enough to be like, you're not going to raise the rates anymore because we're the only one paying.

You know what a monopoly is, right? Monopoly is when there's one seller of a good.

The one seller gets to be like, here's what I'm selling for.

So you got to buy.