balthisar

we still are fine with not having running water

You mean public water, right? Certainly you have a well that provides running water, and, hopefully, a septic tank for gray and black water, right?

China is in no way Marxist. Cite: I live here.

Ah, so the concerns about a police state aren't without merit? We may not be the Third Reich yet, but you say, "When people realize that the politicians they vote for and write to to oppose the police state are the very people building it, it's usually too late." So you agree that we're on the way to a police state?

So, this one guy created The Hulk, was paid let's say $100 for that page (it was probably less in the 60s), and that's ALL HE EVER GETS.

I and another helped create a technology for dispensing glue a certain way. We each got a tidy sum of money, and that's all we'll ever get. And it's absolutely fair; neither of us have the capital to exploit a market for its true value, and our employer does. Frankly, we weren't due more than our salaries.

If you participate in a precedent setting case and your side sets the precedent, are you paid extra money every time that precedent is used in other proceedings?

I live in China. At a restaurant near the Yellow Mountain I had fantastic lemon Chicken. Just like the lemon chicken one would expect at an American Chinese restaurant. Its name on the Chinese-language-only menu: "American Chicken" ("meishi jirou" or something like that).