The incentives created by our current instantiation of IP law has broken the connection between competence and success, and this fact is slowly eating our cultu

The incentives created by our current instantiation of IP law has broken the connection between competence and success, and this fact is slowly eating our culture from the inside out as a result. The division of the bounty of invention (or, attribution of credit) between nation, organization, and individual is fundamental and will never be fully "solved" -- only continuously negotiated -- but the current tilt is doing unsustainable damage to our society. The sudden appearance of Information Technologies and their unprecedented scalability has changed the game in a profound way, enabling a new class of exploitative monopolistic behavior caused by the failure to reward competence in alignment with its addition of value over time. This is the biggest problem facing humanity this century.