I don’t mind the concept as a goal to work towards, after the ⚒️ revolution ⚒️, but I just don’t consider it a viable option to empower the people in a capitalist reality.
A lot of the problems we currently have have less to do with IP protection and more to do with the physical means of production.
Bill Gates convinced the university to sell the IP of a publically funded vaccine to astra zeneca instead of making it public domain. India would have been more than capable of producing hundreds of millions, if not billions, of doses otherwise.
Case study two: Saw Stop. The guy who invented it has been holding the patent for over two decades. Table saws are one of leading causes of amputations in the US. Now they are lobbying the safety commission to make them mandatory. But they won’t release the patent. They’ve also sued Bosh for coming up with a similar technology. So not only have they contributed to countless amputations in the past two decades, they are now actively working on making a tool more expensive for working people.
I don’t mind the concept as a goal to work towards, after the ⚒️ revolution ⚒️, but I just don’t consider it a viable option to empower the people in a capitalist reality.
A lot of the problems we currently have have less to do with IP protection and more to do with the physical means of production.
If only someone had warned us about that.
I’ll give two very current examples:
https://www.wired.com/story/opinion-the-world-loses-under-bill-gates-vaccine-colonialism/
Bill Gates convinced the university to sell the IP of a publically funded vaccine to astra zeneca instead of making it public domain. India would have been more than capable of producing hundreds of millions, if not billions, of doses otherwise.
Case study two: Saw Stop. The guy who invented it has been holding the patent for over two decades. Table saws are one of leading causes of amputations in the US. Now they are lobbying the safety commission to make them mandatory. But they won’t release the patent. They’ve also sued Bosh for coming up with a similar technology. So not only have they contributed to countless amputations in the past two decades, they are now actively working on making a tool more expensive for working people.