Give this a read and pick up on how IP is fundamentally antithetical to human progress and creates the monopolistic god-corporations that dominate our social, commercial, and medical lives today.
Accumulating capital without the use of accumulated knowledge doesn't get the cat fed. Ideas are NOT property.
Intellectual Property and the Structure of Human Action
“the rise of our standard of life is due at least as much to an increase in knowledge which enables us not merely to consume more of the same things but to use different things, and often things we did not even know before. And though the growth of income depends in part on the accumulation of capital, more probably depends on our learning to use our resources more effectively and for new purposes.
The growth of knowledge is of such special importance because, while the material resources will always remain scarce and will have to be reserved for limited purposes, the users of new knowledge (where we do not make them artificially scarce by patents of monopoly) are unrestricted. Knowledge, once achieved, becomes gratuitously available for the benefit of all. It is through this free gift of the knowledge acquired by the experiments of some members of society that general progress is made possible, that the achievements of those who have gone before facilitate the advance of those who follow.”
Previous Kinsella on these estimable pages:
Fife wrote: Tue Jun 12, 2018 6:46 amMichael Malice's podcast has just moved over to Gas Digital. In his first new episode he had Stephen Kinsella on.Kath wrote: Tue Jun 12, 2018 6:27 amAre you aware of any movement to make these absurd patents go bye-bye? Public interest should super-cede when it comes to stuff like maintaining a diverse food supply.Fife wrote: Mon Jun 11, 2018 5:03 pm
Patents in general are the bastard children of the bastard Hamilton.
This is a good introduction to the anti-IP line of thinking.
