Patents. You know you create something snd Then others cant make it. @Ondsinet

LoL

I am conflicted on the matter

They are useless because chongs steal them anyways

Not really tbh. Check medicine.

The problem I have with patents is that these mega conglomerates like the big medicine companies can just choose the price for these things. Stopping the advancment of cost effective products, cheap products, etc. it costs 5 dollars for a company in the US to create insulin. But that company sells ot for 600 dollars

depends how useful the invention is, if its a cure for cancer they shouldnt be able to withhold it and just be reimbursed with whatever they want

On yhe other hand. If you have some small guy Who is alone snd finds something out. These same companies can just steal his idea

Its in the matter of medicine and stuff I am mostly thinking about @Holy Intersectional Inquisition

@MountainMan but you have to consider that researching pills costs them millions if not billions

Yes.

And they already risk researching something that doesn't even work

But is it moral that they can sell them for outrageous prices?

How often do they do that

When if you just let capitalism do its job, you can make the price cheaper.

All the time.

The patents don't last forever anyways

Looks at this Commie that thinks my inventions belong to the State.

I am not joking its literally all the time they do that.

Tje patents are for like 30 years.

@MountainMan yes it's usually to make up for those costs in developing

What ate you talking about? I am saying that patents shouldnt exist. Less government. @Broo TulsiGang 2024 🇬🇧 🇺🇸

I've heard that Kurds are Socialists that like to move to Sweden

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Shush boomer

And the British are cuckolds who cant even leave a union. <:pepe_smug:560207654207750154>

Why should I invent something, if it immediately becomes Public Property

Commie

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Yeah that's the point really

If you're gonna spend billions, risk getting sued into hell if you make a mistake, waste decades researching something,

And then someone else that didn't send those billions can just copy you and make the pills for less

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Isn’t that why the patent office exists

@MountainMan it's not even that people wouldn't do it because the evil capitalist only wants money, they literally need the money to fund other research and development

patents laws was made becuse in the old time we did find out from experience that is there was no laws protecting shit, people will steal it and claim it as their own

in theory, if you did find out the exact recipe for coca cola, you can make it and they cant sue you for that part. only the breach of a protected brand name, as it never have been patented anywhere to keep it a secret

That's why all the sodas taste the same

The secret is 3 gallons of @MountainMan for every 0.5 liters of coke

This

I actually work for all the soda conglomorates