Re: "stealing ideas" vs "improving on them". Doesn't your comclusion here go against the USA's entire full-court-press on maximal "intellectual property"? I m

Re: "stealing ideas" vs "improving on them". Doesn't your comclusion here go against the USA's entire full-court-press on maximal "intellectual property"? I mean, we've extended copyrights, we've allowed just about every vague pipe-dream to be patented, and we've actually criminalized reverse engineering in a lot of situations. I sympathize with your viewpoint, but is that the direction we're heading? Are we heading in the right direction?