&gt;Do you understand why the government prints money during a recession?<p>Yes I do! Do you? The term is called quantitative easing and it is a mechanism of last resort! Amazing! And totally irrelevant to the debate! Speaking of irrelevancy, do you know what the government usually does during a recession before they resort to actually printing money? If you do you win!<p>&gt;So you&#x27;re really just making the spurious claim that copying is stealing, using a detour through currency forgery to disguise the nature of your claim.<p>No I&#x27;m not! No disguises. I am illustrating an isomorphism.  Copying is stealing and the concept is EXACTLY the same as printing money.