> Ironically, if society adopts a viewpoint that blesses industrial espionage/IP theft of any technology which "improves lives," companies lose motivation to de

> Ironically, if society adopts a viewpoint that blesses industrial espionage/IP theft of any technology which "improves lives," companies lose motivation to develop those same technologies. > The ability to profit off of innovation is necessary to pay for facilities, equipment, and researchers. I'm sorry but lets not talk about incentives until the CEO and the entire board at Boeing, Equifax, and Wells Fargo are in prison. Our "justice" system openly pursues "viable" cases which means we only send people to prison who we think we can convict because we have "limited resources". Lets not try to defend the prosecutors here by rationalizing what they do. I won't vilify them either because they are just doing what WE incentivized them to do but I won't throw any accolades their way either.