I'm mostly arguing against patenting trivial increments over non-trivial ideas. It has been long known that MC can be applied to computing any integral over an

I'm mostly arguing against patenting trivial increments over non-trivial ideas. It has been long known that MC can be applied to computing any integral over any domain, so computing the integral of color over a pixel is simply a specialization of a general technique, and should not be patented. Similarly, in akeefer's post above, storing insurance claims in a relational database is a specialization of the well known process of storing anything in a database, so should not be patented.