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166. Mine! How the Hidden Rules of Ownership Control Our Lives (Michael Heller & James Salzman)

The Michael Shermer Show

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Is It Logistically Impossible to Take Care and Pay Everyone?

Wes Anderson: Law is overrated, but we have weigh too much of it. He says when there are too many owners, not too few, resources get destroyed by being under used instead of being over used.Anderson: Culture is all cumulative culture; every language builds on previous words in literature. All small amounts of intellectual property can be copyrighted and fence off the possibility of creating any meaningful or new culture., he writes.

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