NapLajoieonSteroids wrote:.
noddy wrote:.
maybe.
the problem being that patent trolling is not a clear cut scenario.
apple is the best example of that perspective dissonance - some folks thing they truly have innovated in the business of organizing computer interfaces and deserve to protect that research, others think they havent dont much towards innovating computers technically and shouldnt have any protection at all.
the other side of this being that the tax incentives and government policies that make a country like america more innovator friendly than socialist countries like mine is that the average family doesnt benefit much from these industries anyway.
they are all globalised companies, they employ relatively handful of technical people and all the production is automated or borderline slave labour in china.
its only in the d1ckwaving contests that apple being an american company is even relevant, they might as well be a chinese company , or an irish one.
No there isn't a clear cut scenario...
...the azari position is that in order to stay competitive, we need the smartest minds and that increasingly, the economy is run (or should be run) by those who have the best ideas.
I want to point out that the patent system isn't an independent measuring index which awards teams when they score a goal. Like anything else, it can be manipulated to serve the interests of those who don't have the best ideas or don't represent the imagined cognitive elite.
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The bottom line is a disagreement on how our intellect innovates in the real world.
Is it sort of like weightlifting where there is a visible hierarchy where we can separate and identify those at the top (the ones with good genes, habits and training) and the more of the "top of the top" we identify and mobilize, the greater we achieve?
I argue no, largely. I don't think intellectual "horsepower" is all that special, even when we are able to distinguish it. There are scores and scores and scores of people who are bright enough to handle X work or invent Y or handle Z. Those moments of breakthrough, real and imagined, are "right time" sort of events.
In a country with 300+ million people, and an advanced infrastructure; we are not suffering a lack of brainpower....and a "global" pursuit of talent become primarily a political or ideological activity that we cannot presume even attracts the best of the best.
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NapLajoieonSteroids .. Am sure I have explained the following once, but here again
There was an university study : "what constitute the
wealth of a nation"
The study argued that :
1 )
From beginning of time, until (probably) 500 yrs ago .. wealth was (fertile agricultural) land .. as there was no industrial fertilizer, agricultural land could only feed so many people per hectare .. the more land the more population could be fed and all the rest.
That is why, for 1000s of yrs, the big land owners, Lords, where who ruled, and kings and ruler elite came from among them
Wars were to conquer more land.
2 )
Around 500 yrs ago, sort of, industrial age started to kick in .. science etc was taking shape
That is when "natural resources" started become important, Iron ore, copper, Oil etc
That is when "Natural Resources", say, Oil, copper, metals etc started to constitute "wealth"
Brits had cornered world "natural resources" in form of their colonies .. they became rich stealing other people's asset .. and .. Germany had to pay (to Brits) for those natural resources (of other people that Brits controlled)
Wars of conquering (fertile) land , changed to, wars for resources, Oil field of Caucasus, Iron Ore and and
That was what Hitler and Japan European wars (wrongly named World War .. world had nothing to do with that war) was about .. those wars were not for democracy or freedom or tolerance towards others (Jews and now Muslims and Arabs), those wars were for German (and Japan) wanting their fair share from the bounty (of stealing other people's natural resources).
So, British empire, as Churchill once said, became wealthy by British Iranian Oil .. and Iranians poorer and poorer.
3 )
As Hitler was sanctioned for all natural resources, Germans invented "Cracking Coal" making Oil for their planes .. Germans did not get "Chile Nitrate" .. Nitrate is base for explosive (munition) + for fertilizer
So, German invented
Haber-Bosch to make out of Air and Water NH3 .. Ammonia
This snowballed, beginning age of "synthesizing , Nylon etc etc
This called "Pattent" age
That study came to conclusion, wealth of a nation constitutes the "Pattent" that nation hold
In practice that is validated .. Africa the most rich natural resources continent, but the poorest too .. Brits argued they had to pay for WW1&2 costs and made no profit in Iranian oil
therefore no share of profit goes to Iran
It is true that iPhone is made in China .. but , the profit is not in making it, the profit is in all those Pattent fees going to all the technology pattent holders in iPhone
In that context , what has to make America rich is not Facebook rubbish, or Amazon (selling stuff on line) , but technology (patents) that other nations need and ready to pay for to make or do things, to built a better CT-scan or a better car or plane.
Meaning, those sitting around that table with Trump were the wrong people .. in fact, people like "Sheryl Sandberg" make America poorer by sucking needed capital which should go to real technology and instead goes to rubbish like Facebook .. Wall Street not into making America wealthy, but, making WS crooks themselves wealthy even if it leads to America's downfall, hipping money to that rubbish, it helps too being from same "tribe".
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