Message from @Uksio
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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
but the very idea of owning a non-physical concept sits badly with me
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
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
Texas has a brilliant solution to the electrical grid and private industry.
Some things need state to function properly and/or not to be abused
They broke the Electrical Supply system into three separate industries.
I do agree that the state should be as minimal as it can get though
Production, Transmission, and Delivery.
Small govt is my Jive
rye we got that over here
Production company sells the power. Transmission maintains the insfrastructure, Delivery sells the electricity to the customer.
electricity itself has never been cheaper.
Yet the final product price that you pay for, has never been more expensive.
Production creates the power rather
sounds like a good way to pay 3 times for a single service
It's a LOT cheaper under that system than it is in the part of the state I live in
which is 100% government fault since theyre the ones that are adding +70% of the price in taxes
where we've got one company, take it or everything in your fridge rots.
welcome to my country rye