> It's just a mechanism to allow investment in invention to reap rewards before others can compete. Except it's a lie that the real innovators are those in the

> It's just a mechanism to allow investment in invention to reap rewards before others can compete. Except it's a lie that the real innovators are those in the private sector, and that they need to recoup their investment through the intellectual property regime. Nearly all discoveries are made through public sector funding. [1] Your worshipping of supposed individual inventors is part of the great man theory adopted by Silicon Valley [2] and which is spouted by Global North and American bourgeois media/stories/movies. Research and development is a team sport. The lone genius myth will die. [1] Mariana Mazzucato, https://web.archive.org/web/20160204223931/https://nybooks.com/articles/2014/04/24/innovation-government-was-crucial-after-all/ https://web.archive.org/web/20160204223931/https://nybooks.c... [2] https://www.technologyreview.com/2015/08/04/166593/techs-enduring-great-man-myth/ https://www.technologyreview.com/2015/08/04/166593/techs-end...