• Puge Henis@lemmy.ml
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    5 days ago

    don’t they have merit for the poor as well? If I start something and the rich knows it’ll work, what stops them from replicating my thing with more money and resources?

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      4 days ago

      what stops them from replicating my thing with more money and resources?

      That’s what happens today, anyway. Most of us cannot afford the lawyers to make the law work for us.

      In contrast, if we re-use an innovation the billionaires have purchased, we go to jail.

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        4 days ago

        Everything is set up to benefit the Man, right? And give Joe the illusion that he has rights.