djbebs
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Except this is trivially disprovable by simply looking at YouTube.
Copyright plays essentially zero role in the business models of the vast majority of sucessful youtubers, and it is arguably a platform that is far more sucessful than traditional media at producing high quality, relevant content.
Sure, if you get rid of copyright some business models will no longer be possible... but some new business models will now be viable.
You wouldn't argue "we have to protect the baby crushing machine industry because if we don't then the baby crushers won't have a job", so why are you making that argument for copyright?
At the end of the day all stock market returns come from one's of 3 things:
Dividends
Earnings per Share growth
Multiple expansion
Over the long run the speculation that you so decry ( which amounts to Multiple expansion) has a negligible impact (less than 1%).
Sure you have plenty of short term booms and busts, but over the long term they are really irrelevant.
The "housing crisis" is 100% a political choice by portuguese voters.
That is, the shareholders who own the business and paid for the machines, not the employees who merely operate them.
>It could be nice if companies would be forced to set up collective workers representation entities when they reach a certain numbers of employees, where I am the limit is of 50 employees, then you must have a collective representation
So if that was the case, how can I work for a large company without such workers representation?