Patents punishes everyone who is not first. Why would anyone innovate when the rewards are 2 lotto away: 1. innovation itself, 2. be 1st among 7B ? Patents mig

Patents punishes everyone who is not first. Why would anyone innovate when the rewards are 2 lotto away: 1. innovation itself, 2. be 1st among 7B ? Patents might have been fine in local economy of 25M 100 years ago but they are definitely are not in global economy of 7B today.