[jogger08152]

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If all you're worried about is EV, you're going to be incredibly frustrated. The economy is not a scientific laboratory. There's no control group. You have a smaple size of one. Trying to calculate policy A = EV $X and policy B = EV $Y is impossible. Give it up.

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That would be true if policy B ("no IP protection") offered any advantages to offset its massive disadvantage ("sh*t doesn't get invented in the first place"). Does it?

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See, this "calculation" stuff is exactly what I'm talking about.

Policy A has advantage X and disadvantage Y.

X-Y=Z

Policy B has advangate L and disadvantage M.

L-M=N

Now, you assert that one of these two is greater than the other, but you have NO WAY of assigning ANY value to X, Y, L or M. It's total pulling numbers out of your ass.

EDIT: Specifically, in this case, jogger points out that policy B has a negative, but ignores that his favored policy A *also* has a negative.

EDIT: Also, his assertion that "[censored] doesn't get invented" is demonstrably false. DUCY?

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I'm still waiting to hear the disadvantage of Policy A.