> I agree that patents are odd here, but the solution isn't to patch in more power to bureaucrats over the top of the other power. What is confusing here? The

> I agree that patents are odd here, but the solution isn't to patch in more power to bureaucrats over the top of the other power. What is confusing here? The entire structure is already a perversion of the natural world. If we did not have our government, and the rules that it enforces (those "bureaucrats" you don't seem to like), then there is no "invention" to be nullified. They already have this power. They enforce it through violence and imprisonment (tools reserved officially to the government). If the bureaucrats want your idea - they will take it, because they are the only thing stopping them from doing so. The question is not: "Will the government nullify my invention?!?!?". It's - "What might my life have been like if the government did not restrict SO many people from competing at all - by artificially stopping them from using the tools and ideas they see around them? (for fairly ridiculous time periods)"