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No, but it does matter how much money the alleged infringer has.

Property law is mostly concerned with protecting the rich from the poor, so when a rich person violates the property of a poor person, the courts can't allow the inversion of purpose and will create something called a "legal fiction," which is basically the kind of bending-over-backwards that my children do to try to claim that they didn't break the rules, actually, and if you look at it in a certain way they were actually following the rules, actually.

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This sort of thing used to be heavily downvoted on HN. How the site has changed in the last year.
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Yes, the VC-backed startup ecosystem that was the origin of this website does rely on propagating the myth that we live in a meritocracy to ensure it has enough cheap labor to build prototypes that its anointed few can acquire at rock bottom pricing. But we've been through enough cycles of it now that we've started seeing the patterns.
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> rock bottom pricing

Value is not set by what you put into it, it is set by what people are willing to pay for it.

Browsing in a thrift store can be very enlightening!

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> Value is not set by what you put into it, it is set by what people are willing to pay for it.

Is a human life literally worthless, because they never pay to be born?

The map is not the territory, the price is not the value.

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History clearly establishes that the open market assigns substantial value to human life. We just happen to have outlawed trading in it. Human life has been deemed worthless by force of law.

Less facetiously, you're committing a semantic error.

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Some people will pay a great deal to have a baby. Some will pay to abort their baby.

What value something has is totally dependent on who is valuing it.

More formally, it's the Law of Supply and Demand.

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It can be empirically observed that human lives are not assigned much value when choosing to start a war.
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> Value is not set by what you put into it, it is set by what people are willing to pay for it.

What do you base that belief upon?

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Have you ever bought something that you didn't think was worth the money at the time?
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"Markets clear" is one of those meritocracy myths that we the hoi paloi get taught explicitly all the while the elite will tell you to your face they don't believe. Google and Meta are massively profitable companies built on the idea that the concept of value is manipulable.
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Where did you get the idea that those ideas are mutually exclusive?
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