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This is because of expiring patents which create an artificial inflation of businesses' durable market value for the incumbent allowing them to monopolize the m
by yahootube 6mo ago
This is because of expiring patents which create an artificial inflation of businesses' durable market value for the incumbent allowing them to monopolize the market via supply scarcity. Naturally there would have been more recycling the entire time if it were not restricted by patents.
- pfdietz 6mo agoOr, less conspiratorially, it's because the volume of batteries that need recycling has been steadily growing.
- manoDev 6mo agoBoth can be true.
- mhb 6mo agoOr because the possibility of profits incentivized invention.
- outside1234 6mo agoAll three of these theories can be true
- TeMPOraL 6mo agoIn which case the market is working as intended.
- ezfe 6mo agoIs someone saying otherwise here?
- natpalmer1776 6mo agoYahooTube’s comment is heavily implying that the market systems in-place stifled invention via patent restrictions.
- Filligree 6mo agoYes, but isn’t that working as intended?
- natpalmer1776 6mo agoAs we can see by this thread… It’s heavily debated as to whether the intentions we should be following are those of long-dead forbears, or the will of the people, and in the latter, which people.
- Dylan16807 6mo agoIf all three are true then the market is 2/3 working as intended and 1/3 held back by patents that aren't being licensed out enough.
- mhb 6mo agoAlternatively, if all three are true, 1/3 are held back because of the lack of incentive to develop an invention.
- infecto 6mo agoWhich patents were the biggest hold backs in the recycling industry? I am curious how the patent landscape looks today compared to a decade ago. Seems like it would be exploding in more recent history.
- halestock 6mo agoSorry what?