That's quite a poor assumption I find. Most modern leaps in progress have been publicly funded (see for example penicillin, the internet, anything resulting fro

That's quite a poor assumption I find. Most modern leaps in progress have been publicly funded (see for example penicillin, the internet, anything resulting from the space race, and for a more comprehensive list, the entrepeneurial state by Mazzucato). Capital owners typically just take this publicly funded work, slap a sticker on it, and put it behind a paywall. Not much added value imho.