• webghost0101@sopuli.xyz
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    5 hours ago

    Some things (field of medicine/environmentalism) can’t wait 15 years for an effective democratised solution.

    The idea that someone would be rewarded for limiting access to such solution sickens me.

    Naturally they would deserve global praise possible in the form of a reward for creating the idea that changed the world for the better, but capitalism is designed to not do so.

    To often in industry the actual creative inventor gets nothing, while the company they work under gets the patent to exploits the demand.

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      5 hours ago

      If employees owned the means of production, this would be a moot point… Just pointing that out for people.

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        4 hours ago

        It would be way less of a problem for sure, but not moot. An individual inventor can still stop other people from using an identical solution simply for being first to file the paperwork.