alt Hacker News> One of his arguments was that if he worked hard and built a business it would help support his children & descendants for, perhaps, generations. But he was an author and creator and felt that all of his hard labor should be able to support his family after his death.
You'd have to be seriously arrogant to believe that your labour should support multiple generations of your family.
Why? Shouldn't that be the dream for anyone with a family, and is indeed the case for many people?
I don't have any copyrights or trademarks or anything, but if I did I'd much rather my family be the one reaping its benefits when I die rather than some soulless corpo who only wants to use my work to pad their own wallets.