> So anytime anyone has an idea of any kind (i.e. no matter how stringent your standards for patentability), someone else with more resources and hands in a lot

> So anytime anyone has an idea of any kind (i.e. no matter how stringent your standards for patentability), someone else with more resources and hands in a lot of huge markets can just say "cool" and then take it? If your idea is simple enough that they can easily replicate and improve it, then yeah. Of course. What are you proposing? An alternative where society will not benefit from this idea because nobody who actually has the means to realize the idea can execute?