it's called: abolish patents, you idiot.pic.twitter.com/eYAfNA9J3f
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and yet it spurs innovation on some margin just a nice empirical question, find the optimum
halts innovation more often then it spurs, patents can be made for just about any idea, and just for having the idea.
ofc there's also the patents that get classified by the government for "national security"
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