People who assert property rights (including limited monopoly rights on intellectual property) are doing mental gymnastics too. We’re just used to them, thanks to a century of propaganda after the great depression.

The current state of wealth distribution a century later doesn’t seem to carry the promise that capitalism can be fair.

In fact, IP maximalism (Thanks, Walt!) has denied the public a robust public domain, and our courts struggle to do the mental gymnastics to understand why we have a public domain in the first place.

That is to say, the US and EU have totally lost the plot.