Message from @shinsoo
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Perhaps disallowing corporations to own intellectual property might help.
Specifically what comes to mind is the pharmaceutical industry.
IP is such a silly concept
owning ideas or concepts makes no sense
Part of the corruption in that field is that it's prohibitively expensive to compete, regardless of how easy a drug is to manufacture.
I can kind of get it for creative purposes
State should also do the kind of "baseline regulation" in some cases, i.e. offer the services at the low (but fair) price so that there would be a baseline and jacking prices up would be not viable for the private sector (unless they can offer some excellent addition that is worth more)
i get the argument that creators deserve credit
but that's not how IP law is structured
This sort of "soft regulation" works much better than any legislation does
I'm not so sure it would.
It lets market do its thing, but sets a limit
The State should not be competing in the market.
why not?
The state should be far more passive than it is.
if they can offer the same or better service at lower price, surely that's good
if the state is passive, it'll simply lose to the competition
@shinsoo Patent and copyright is just abused and misused. Does not mean those types of protections should not exist.
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The problem is patent trolling.
true, it just means they shouldn't exist as they do now
THere's probably plenty of advancements that have been stymied because someone somewhere holds a patent and wants their money for vaguely describing something someone else did the work for.
The thing is: state can afford to lose. Even if their offer is not the best, the mere existence of it would prevent the olygopoly or price damping
The Free Market has shown us in the past that if there is a cheaper way to do something, someone will come in to disrupt the market.
also it can provide the service where business considers it unprofitable
free market lol
The state isn't needed for that process.
In fact, the state should step out of the way of that process.
Patent trolls like Edison will always find a way to abuse the system. The real inventors still deserve to get paid.
the free market tends towards monopolies and cartels
and in the modern era, advertising is more efficient than innovation, especially for pharma
It is not a simple problem.
Heh. I like that you bring in Edison. 😛
Kind of a scumbag.
Well, some things should never be left to free market
Like Firefighting
Ancient Athens and USA in 1800 tried that
Firefighter mafias were having fights in the streets
I can kind of see your point there.
anything that has high infrastructure costs imo
competition is nigh-impossible with broadband
might wanna take a look into westinghouse history