Patents are a plague on modern society. Early 1900 did not have accessible light speed communications like the internet. There are billions of people capable

Patents are a plague on modern society. Early 1900 did not have accessible light speed communications like the internet. There are billions of people capable of understanding complex ideas and generating inventions. Patents prevent small, underfunded inventors from creating. It makes access to innovation exclusively for the rich, who have access to the resources necessary to patent new ideas, defend their patent, and squash small innovators. It also forces underfunded innovators to seek financing and relinquish significant IP rights to a viralistic parasite providing funding. They are a tool of control against the intellectual class, and a method to slow innovation in order to parasitic entities to maximize profits. Rarely do patents in the modern day protect small time inventors. Instead, it entrenches large scale institutions and enslaves the minds generating the intellectual property. Simultaneously, with millions of brilliant minds around the globe, it gives the rich tools to squash inventors generating simple concepts in parallel. So many simple ideas — like much of 3d printing, or shadow extrusions, or using ML to read road signs — have been patented to the detriment of all. I could go on all day. Patents are a plague.