As a UNM MLA student, you come to ralziee that the SW was built on smoke and mirrors and has been for generations. If there is a start it was with manifest destiny and continued through to the post WWII age. Relying on civil engineering to tap into the aquafer to keep development going was only the first mistake with many to follow. Though NM has a better grasp on sustainability than AZ when it comes to water consumption, we\'re still lagging. The sad truth is that planning professionals and engineers alike do not think strategically for long term environmental health. I suspect it is because there is very minor environmental protections in this area; thus, the public has little or no chance to evaluate potential impacts on the land. Where to end this discussion .?
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The most obvious bnfeeit of a highly granular IP system is a moral, not incentive, bnfeeit: we'd be able to pay people who now otherwise work for free, for example, people who developed Linux.I seriously doubt, however, that a future world would see much use for granular IP from an incentive standpoint. That world is far wealthier, more able to create IP and has more substitutes for any given IP. Since creation costs of the overwhelming amount of IP approach zero witness, again, Linux was built for free the incentives would be negligible vis-a-vis other work. More likely it would suffice to enforce rules against industrial scale ripoffs and leave the rest alone. Being first-to-market would be much more valuable in a wealthier society with a better communications structure (and uptake), leaving the marginal bnfeeit of granular IP protections low and possibly the real bnfeeit still negative because of enforcement costs.
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