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Reminder that patent laws create abusive monopolies intentionally. End the patent system, and you'll be able to buy a high end CPU for $25. Arguments in favor of patents are usually emotional arguments concerning individuals, but the proposed policies end up helping very few individuals at the expense of helping huge populations.
>It isn't fair to profit off of someone else's ideas without compensating them.
We profit from other people's ideas all the time. You can't possibly avoid it. Ideas are non-rivalrous. You can't "use up" an idea and prevent others from using it. Look no further than open source software for examples.
>What incentive will people have to innovate?
Businesses have every incentive to improve their systems. Businesses even improve open source projects they use.
The first producer always has a natural window of monopoly, and if his prices are low enough, he has a chance to extend this window.
Currently, we have patent races, where it's actually made more expensive to innovate. If someone else beats you to the patent, you can't even recoup your research costs.
>What if you need your idea protected?
It's not the role of the government to protect the secrets of private citizens. Public protection of private secrets creates moral hazard: people are less careful because they can externalize their carelessness onto taxpayers.
An individual inventor can be protected from manufacturers by private contract law. Private law, bonds, and private arbitration possess sufficient mechanisms to do this.
Exclusivity agreements and cartels can approximate a "soft" patent system without the use of force.
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>>137072055
Probably should have used this image instead of Kinsella's fantastic book.
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Only people against IP and patent laws are faggos that don't create anything.
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>>137072055
Patents support r&d and encourage innovation
You'd have to be a mental midget not to understand this.
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>no patents
>crate a useful thing
>know that you will never profit from it
>destroy your invention
BOYS WE JONG GALT NAO
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>>137073582
Great argument. Kid, you're going places.
>>137073709
>Patents support r&d and encourage innovation
Even if that were true, Kinsella elaborates an ethical argument against this.
But I laid out several compelling arguments against this which you ignored, patent races being the big issue.
One argument I didn't mention is that patents reduce the number of people engaged in improving an idea.
The more people exposed to an idea, the faster that idea improves.
Also patents create an artificial incentive to not mutually share your research with other companies.
Also https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4wbFdePb-k
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>>137072055
You are literally retarded
Please kys.
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>>137075549
If you find yourself spouting a consensus argument, make sure it's a damn consistent argument that you've verified from the ground up and can defend rationally.
You're no different from the gun control people. Remember how certain ideas seemed absolutely inconceivable before you got redpilled? Everyone is bent on maintaining power by reducing people's tendency to question the "consensus" model of the world.
Ideas aren't always popular because they're right. They're very often popular only because they're easy to accept.
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Final bump
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>>137072055
China plz leave
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>>137077831
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4wbFdePb-k
China's starting to do things right.
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