libertymcateer

Without copyright protection, copyleft open-source licenses are unenforceable. You are basically saying all software should be MIT licensed.

> purely on cost.

Proximity to resources is priced in to 'cost', no?

First, humans are still necessary - to build the factories, to operate them, to act as security guards - and the cost of those humans is still lower.

Second - all the other costs in low wage countries are also a lot lower. Combine that with how absurdly cheap international shipping is and there is no reason to relocate the manufacture of low-margin goods to the US until you are really starting to talk about the costs of automation being so efficient the extra pennies on shipping will make a difference in earnings. Given the expense of maintaining real assets in the U.S., i.e., buildings (utilities, maintenance, insurance, taxes, building), this is likely to be a while.

I agree - I'm an attorney. But are we picking and choosing here? Because my bet is, and has been for quite sometime, that when all is said and done, the 'regulations' we are talking about are those that already exist and are applied to securities.

What about the folks who love cryptocurrency specifically because of the fact it is unregulated? Are we not doing that anymore?