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"Should Make a Difference": Gave up on the line breaks | 258 comments | Create New Account
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"Should Make a Difference" ... fixed the line breaks
Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, June 04 2013 @ 03:54 PM EDT
Too little. It is wallpapering around the fundamental problem.

The problem is this:

Patents do not promote progress. They impede progress in obvious inventions
by creating 20 year monopolies and with them their economic rents that
impede the growth of the economy (i.e. making other discoveries, feeding
people, distributing energy, creating jobs).

Patents go back to the time of Kings when monopolies were assigned to
random people of "good fortune"; i.e. "I am a friend of the King
so he gave me
this land with you surfs." Or "My Great Great Great Uncle helped the
King cut
off the head of the Old King, so I get to extract monopoly rents from you
Surfs".

Or today: "I thought up this great obvious idea, like Icons on a Hand Held
Portable Computer Device that was similar to a science fiction book I read
from the 1950's, so the King has randomly let me extract monopoly rents
from you surfs".

Patents on information technology, or on most biology are brain-dead wrong
public policy.

Obama's administration is too stupid to recognize this. But then so are all the

politicians who are extracting monopoly rents to stay in office from the
earlier
generation of random "Kings" like Bill Gates and the Koch Brothers.

Some political economy. Who invented this?

Was this what our founding fathers envisioned when they used their
Enlightenment Values to push back the "Devine Rights of Kings".

-An Unhappy Anonymous Person

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"Should Make a Difference"
Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, June 04 2013 @ 03:54 PM EDT
Our founding fathers were businessmen. So in a word, yes.

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"Should Make a Difference": Gave up on the line breaks
Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, June 04 2013 @ 03:55 PM EDT
I guess I need to figure out HTML to make it look good.

Posted from Chrome in Plain Old Text Mode. :(

[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]

"surf" -> "serf"
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, June 05 2013 @ 04:47 AM EDT
It does not help your argument if I have to wince every four lines for mostly
unrelated reasons.

[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]

  • "surf" -> "serf" - Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, June 05 2013 @ 03:09 PM EDT
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