In another HN article today, there's a Harper's Magazine article about the gullibility of people and online scams. Having written and acquired a global patent,

In another HN article today, there's a Harper's Magazine article about the gullibility of people and online scams. Having written and acquired a global patent, to significant personal and financial expense, and as a result have been exposed to the industry of scans surrounding patents and patent law, I now feel the entire patents enterprise is a giant multi-industry scam, institutionalized by major corporations in concert with their governments because that scam works for them very, very well. It is institutionalized now, and no longer called a scam officially, because it is an official conduit for stealing valuable working ideas from the non-1%.