Imagine being on your death bed with your only contribution to this world having been vaguely worded abstract patents which didn't translate to any real product

Imagine being on your death bed with your only contribution to this world having been vaguely worded abstract patents which didn't translate to any real products. Especially knowing that had you not helped to stifle medical/tech innovation, maybe you would still have a few extra centuries to live. Yep, that must feel like being a cockroach and a failure in one. Also, the article has a wrong title. A patent office would never undermine their raison d'être. In this case they're only asking to be compared to other countries so that they don't issue fewer patents than them. The patent system is so bad that, at this point, the only way to fix it is to completely abolish it. Do you still believe that the patents are here to protect you, a garage inventor, against the mega-corps with unlimited free-money bank funding? The real philosophical question here is where do your thoughts come from - did you really create them, are you really so special that given enough time nobody else would come up with that idea? Are you aware of the concept of multiple discovery? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_discovery https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_multiple_discoveries