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If it took you three billion dollars and five years to conceptualize an apple that cured something, and suddenly it was commonwealth, nobody would look for appl
by raven105x 7y ago
If it took you three billion dollars and five years to conceptualize an apple that cured something, and suddenly it was commonwealth, nobody would look for apples that cured something, and we'd go back to the dark ages. Ideologies must be evaluated on what they functionally incentivize in a society - and this proposition makes R&D investment equivalent to financial suicide.
- yes-except-no 7y ago*the people that have three billion available would not do it, because their interest is making more of those billions. Anyone with any inkling of morals to their characters would say yes and make the apple. Anyone valuing society even the tiniest bit would.
- lxwang 7y agoAbolishing patents is radical enough to begin with, so why stop there? If everyone had UBI and free healthcare to cover the material costs of living, is it really so implausible that people who were interested in looking for apples that cured something would do so? That aside, the obvious answer would be to publicly fund this kind of activity that we deem beneficial to society.
- username90 7y ago> If it took you three billion dollars and five years to conceptualize an apple that cured something, and suddenly it was commonwealth, nobody would look for apples that cured something This can be solved by government grants, a high but still normal VAT on all medicine purchases is enough to cover all our current medicine research costs, you'd just have to earmark it.