But I am mostly thinking about how powerful meta move is it to invent mechanisms that prevent pies from being confiscated. Something like GNU GPL that helped create the entire ecosystem of free software. I can easily imagine a parallel universe where this license does not exist, and people not only can’t imagine it, but many of them signal cleverness by economical arguments why something like this is impossible in principle.
What other anti-pie-grabbing mechanisms exist in parallel universes but not in ours?
Okay, I’ll try.
But I am mostly thinking about how powerful meta move is it to invent mechanisms that prevent pies from being confiscated. Something like GNU GPL that helped create the entire ecosystem of free software. I can easily imagine a parallel universe where this license does not exist, and people not only can’t imagine it, but many of them signal cleverness by economical arguments why something like this is impossible in principle.
What other anti-pie-grabbing mechanisms exist in parallel universes but not in ours?