(This is satire. Obviously you don't owe taxes just by having a valuable thought, and by extension my point was that obviously a thought alone can't actually b

(This is satire. Obviously you don't owe taxes just by having a valuable thought, and by extension my point was that obviously a thought alone can't actually belong to an employer if you haven't even acted on it. Of course an employer can still bully you to hand over what you produce outside the company, but that's simply not right, whatever your contract might say. No one is a slave or can sign a meaningful contract to that effect, in my personal opinion. Judges may differ.)