Re: Two points against Intellectual property laws
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Are you arguing that a wholly state sponsored and owned research company could achieve anything like the results that a competitive capitalist company could?
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If you hire the exact same scientists, and give them the same funding you were already giving them as part of a 'competitive capitalist company,' do you think they'd just stop trying?
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I'm suggesting that Very few if any wholly state sponsored companies can produce/achieve anything like the results/efficiencies of a competitive capatilist company. I think the defence industry is an excellent example of this. Looking at any single source contractor, the cost overuns and inefficiencies are explosive as opposed to competive sourcing. I wouldn't suppose that the scientists working for the single source companies "aren't trying," I would simply say they are far less efficient due to the end motivation being far different.
Perhaps I could just say "innovation seems sparked far more through competition than through altruism."
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