I agree that many of these things should be treated as research and publicly funded rather than IP law and what we have today. I am just doing my best to frame the positives and negatives of the existing system with the current knowledge we have. COVID is a great example for how it could work (albeit the way it played out was still very capitalistic) in a more ideal system where we fund something because it is ultimately good for humanity.
I never said anything about public funding all of it, just gave it as an example of one of the possible customers along with NGOs and consumers. A fully competitive (potentially capitalist, but better as a mercantile/free) market could exist without patents as I explained. What part should I elaborate?
I agree that many of these things should be treated as research and publicly funded rather than IP law and what we have today. I am just doing my best to frame the positives and negatives of the existing system with the current knowledge we have. COVID is a great example for how it could work (albeit the way it played out was still very capitalistic) in a more ideal system where we fund something because it is ultimately good for humanity.
I never said anything about public funding all of it, just gave it as an example of one of the possible customers along with NGOs and consumers. A fully competitive (potentially capitalist, but better as a mercantile/free) market could exist without patents as I explained. What part should I elaborate?