Intellectual property rights = lol × lmao^2
Discussion
Is IP delaying civilisation advance?
Really good question, sir. Thank you!
First, by advance do you mean progress or transformation?
Secondly, what does one really own? I say you only own what you can defend. IP is about ideas and ideas can hardly be protected by laws and whatnot. You patent something in one part of the world by paying a premium just to see it implemented in another part of the world. Now what? Open source solves this problem with elegance, creating the opportunity for people to transact v4v (voluntary). Bitcoin hits many birds with one stone. The asymmetry of cryptography offers the user the closest thing one can hope to own here on Earth.
Thirdly, Goethe said it best: what's really yours you can't lose it even if you throw it away. He was talking of course about the things you get to integrate during your lifetime in the sphere of the attributes of the human experience.
In conclusion, IP sucks balls.
By advance I mean progress or more civilised in general (less theft, less violence, more freedom)
I love the concept of Open Source. But I’m not sure if everything should be or will be open source. 🤔 What are the incentives for innovation and R&D? 🤔
Volvo invented the seatbelts and open sourced it. Last I've checked Volvo is still in business decades after the fact. I'm saying that patents incentives violence. Open source is more freedom, less theft and crimes.
R&D now is fueled by the money printers not by truth. Bitcoiners would be more careful in allocating the capital for research. It's a lot harder to bullshit them.