Ask HN: If you think ideas are not worth a dime then post yours here

This is probably one among the most cliched discussions but more often than not people just escape it either by talking in favor of it or against it. If someone seriously thinks that ideas are not worth a dime, then that idea should be out in public without any fear of being copied.

I personally think that ideas are more than a dime, unless it's an outright clone. And I am not saying it because of the fear of being cloned or copied; I am rather saying it because discovering/inventing a useful idea is so rare. So it's the scarcity which makes it valuable and not the fact that someone might steal it.

EDIT: Important point missed. The discussion applies more to the people who can implement their ideas on their own.