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When Moneybags employees come up with an innovation, Moneybags himself is rewarded by the government with copyright laws, patents, trademarks which restricts ideas and protects him from competition from his enemy, Mr. Cashbox. (think of all the innovators Microsoft has made 'deals' with).

So I suppose moneybags (we'll use Bill Gates) should pay this person's salary for years, pay for this person's training, and pay for the equiptment and office space that this person uses to create a product, yet in the end should release the individual creator of all legal obligations and allow him to reap all financial rewards. Um...mix in an Econ 101 class, please.

It's true that some workers make big money off brilliant inventions, but the vast majority of creators and innovators are hindered or completely prevented from doing their work at all because of copyrights, or don't have the business sense to leverage their creation properly.

Big shock that the President of the Soviet Fan Club would be a fan of copying another person's work for your own gain.

Creation is human nature, not invisible people nature. It's been that way before Capitalism and now. All you have to do is look at the accomplishments of the Soviet Union and Cuba (in terms of medical research) to prove that money has almost nil to do with motivation.

Yet any person who had knowledge of all three countries' medical programs would choose to have their affliction treated in the USA 100% of the time. They can keep their pioneering bovine treatments of hemorroids and use of dog placenta to treat cancer. I'd rather be treated by a

real

doctor than 2005's version of Dr. Mengele.

Patents and copyrights are a government reward??

Hardly.

They are government-provided protections of private property.

You see, Phibes, people like you would pilfer the innvations of others, copy them, and profit from their sale.

That's the difference between civilized people that respect human capital and private property.

"You see, Phibes, people like you would pilfer the innvations of others, copy them, and profit from their sale. "


Then he would be Ralph Waldo Phibes.