I think you are on to something, but are jumping the gun. We ideally would want as much in the commons and would want people to continue to the commons as much as possible.
The problem is that our economy is based around the assumption that most resources are highly limited. Unfortunately that creates incentive to move resources from the commons to individual's balance sheets. Unfortunately our species had reached a point where this leads to potentially catastrophic consequences where resources are actually limited. At the same time the economy only works for resources that are limited as well. If you produce something that's naturally in the Commons like digital goods you cannot get access to the limited resources. Therefore we do these unnatural acts of constraining these resources so that people don't have to starve.
As we automate more and we got the limit of our exploitation of limited commons we need to stop individual exploitation of those commons. Fortunately at the same time we are also teaching a point where shitty jobs are getting more and more automated. I think we need something like basic income to allow people to not exploitation the Commons to survive and at the same time use that gained free time from automation to instead contribute to the Commons at their own discretion.
Capitalism thus would slowly be phased out as automation progresses. If we just abandon copyright overnight lots of people's work will go unrewarded. If we completely abandon capitalism right now, we end up back in Soviet communism because there is still too much shitty work left that's not automated yet.
The problem is that our economy is based around the assumption that most resources are highly limited. Unfortunately that creates incentive to move resources from the commons to individual's balance sheets. Unfortunately our species had reached a point where this leads to potentially catastrophic consequences where resources are actually limited. At the same time the economy only works for resources that are limited as well. If you produce something that's naturally in the Commons like digital goods you cannot get access to the limited resources. Therefore we do these unnatural acts of constraining these resources so that people don't have to starve.
As we automate more and we got the limit of our exploitation of limited commons we need to stop individual exploitation of those commons. Fortunately at the same time we are also teaching a point where shitty jobs are getting more and more automated. I think we need something like basic income to allow people to not exploitation the Commons to survive and at the same time use that gained free time from automation to instead contribute to the Commons at their own discretion.
Capitalism thus would slowly be phased out as automation progresses. If we just abandon copyright overnight lots of people's work will go unrewarded. If we completely abandon capitalism right now, we end up back in Soviet communism because there is still too much shitty work left that's not automated yet.