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stobors t1_j4b4qft wrote

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TIL my step-father was a philosopher.

His saying was: "Boy, a hard head gonna make for a soft ass and I aim to tenderize yours."

And he proceeded to do so many times over the course of my teenage years.l

It made me smarter about not getting caught.

Then I realized that if I didn't do <insert teen problem>, I didn't have to worry about being caught.

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FirstSynapse t1_j4b3t2k wrote

> The thing is, if you're a programmer, engineer, architect, etc. this is 100% standard practice now: whatever you create on the company's time with company resources, the company owns. If that's "stealing", every single modern company does it today, and we don't even blink at it.

There is an important difference you're not mentioning. Companies don't just allow people to create things for free using the company's resources. Companies HIRE those workers and pay them a salary to do so. What you describe Edison did is a predatory practice to attract passionate people who have limited funds. If the rights of the inventions were shared by both parties, it would be a different story, as in one provides the resources and the other provides the time, work and ideas and then both own a portion of the patent. If he hired them, then he would provide compensation for that work in hopes they would produce something useful for him to recover that investment. But why would anyone in their right mind work for free just to have everything they create out of passion taken away from them benefited from by a greedy businessman?

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Spoonerize_Duck_Fat t1_j4b3e60 wrote

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How about half-assed discipline followed by half the amount of regret? That seems to be where I’m at most days.

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the_other_irrevenant t1_j4b381o wrote

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Everyone should choose to be immediately suspicious of anyone who says there are only two, highly specific, choices.

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