RE: Our Unimaginable Wealth

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Hey friend,

Great observations...

If you're familiar with the Human Action Principles lectures and/or the V50 lectures, I would love to hear your comments about how they present intellectual property.

If you aren't, I can't recommend them highly enough:

https://hap.liberty.me
https://v50.liberty.me

This is in response to your comments on Wilbur and Orville and their intellectual property. The present patent system certainly may not be the way to protect it, but inventors and innovators have typically been severely undervalued and under-compensated...
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I am more inclined to Stephan Kinsella's arguments. You don't own the minds and property of others. IP laws are used to violate, not protect, property rights. Such rights can only apply to scarce goods, not ephemeral ideas.

On a more practical level, inventions do not tend to come from the workshops of lone inventors, and it is the lone inventor who cannot hire a stable of attorneys who suffers most from impositions by patent trolls and megacorporations.

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As a lone inventor myself, I am very sympathetic to the plight of isolated, unfunded individuals who create ideas but do not have the means to either fully develop or protect them. In an ideal world, the value created by such would be universally recognized and compensation would be voluntarily thrust upon them out of sheer gratitude, if nothing else.

Thanks for mentioning Kinsella. The name is familiar, but I need to read him and consider his viewpoint.

I am a named inventor on several patents that were works for hire, and so I do not own the rights. I was compensated during the development of the technologies, but enjoy no residual compensation. Nevertheless, the patents have been an outstanding form of personal credentialing. I have also developed products and processes that I have not patented myself, choosing rather to protect the ideas simply by means of not revealing internal details.

BTW, I'm just seeing your much appreciated response today...

This is an area of considerable interest to me as a "lone inventor," and one I would love to discuss further. As a general summary, I think that progress in all areas has been hampered most directly by the perpetual theft and oppression of the state, and by the reluctance of people to accept new ideas (kind of what I think @steampunkkaja is saying) than by inventors who try to protect their own ideas. And that turtle-like response on the part of we inventors is, of course, a rather natural reaction to the predatory nature of the state, not to mention the other individual and corporate actors who tend to swoop in and plunder good ideas.

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P.S. @jacobtothe

BTW, I am in violent agreement with the thesis of your article! Mankind is far better off as a result of the free market and the intellectual capital from all the innovators who have developed the goods and services that make the world go 'round. I am very much in favor of win-win strategies and authentic freedom to innovate, buy, and sell. We could all prosper and progress beyond our wildest dreams in a truly free world. And I don't recall whether you've seen my "Fountain of Youth" series on Hydrogen for Health? (Brown's gas, or HHO). I'm indebted to things I've learned from George Wiseman, and I've open-sourced a great deal of the information I've learned and developed in that series.

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