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Comment by audunw

Imagine all the countless hour of pointless human labor that could be saved if we simply abolished patents. How many man hours has been wasted in these thousands of cases? And for what? How is patenting combination of spices going to increase innovation?

But then again I suppose this "solves" the problem that there's not enough productive work to go around.

In a 100 years perhaps all human endeavor will be about fighting over imaginary monopolies.

parent audunw 11 years ago

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