>kind of enthusiastic about just taking stuff from those who have it, considerably more than the current understanding of private property (or even taxation) considers acceptable.

Funny how you can use that description for how AI companies used everything for training data.

The obvious counterargument is that the AI labs took virtually all human writing, imagery, music, etc., without regard for licensing or copyright. It's fair to ask what they owe back to the commons they built their models on (and which they are in some sense helping to destroy).

There were long ancestral lines of humans who were very very keen on not redistributing power for many generations.

They were called kings. Cutting their heads off was the best thing to happen to society, ever.

Take the long view. Our particular economic and ideological moment is not worth defending.

I think the point is that they took our collective knowledge without asking and are selling it back to us. We should own a substantial portion of it.

(Not sure if this is the right approach, but the general idea seems rather important.)

Yet progressives say that he would be "moderate" in Europe.