In history it has been the most productive and innovative, because research and development takes time and money. The wright brothers are patent trolls who prev

In history it has been the most productive and innovative, because research and development takes time and money. The wright brothers are patent trolls who prevented the US from making plane designs, but without them we wouldn’t have modern flight. If we took away this incentive I doubt the world would be better. Currently you have this system where countries that don’t respect patents will just make it anyway, the US did against Europe and China does against the US. Asia did not have patents and Europeans did. If my ideas aren’t my own and anyone can copy it, I wouldn’t want to put efforts into something others will clone. I think patents are a necessary evil at least enough of it to make innovations, but foreign copycats and bootlegs serve this market well.